Word: northbound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under way, U.S. border guards and customs officers fanned out across the porous 2,500-mile Mexico border that large quantities of illegal drugs cross on their way to the U.S. Officers and trained hounds searched automobile glove compartments and trunks, children's dolls and hollow surfboards, northbound traffic was slowed for miles on Mexico's routes 2 and 15. Other agents were at the ready in Coast Guard ships, fast cars, helicopters and high-speed pursuit planes to cut off smugglers at any available pass. Eventually the U.S. hopes to encourage Mexican agents to use planes equipped...
...river, it looks like a throbbing industrial center. Actually, most of the industry is situated beyond the city limits, in a warren of privately incorporated company towns that draw on East St. Louis's cheap labor sources but contribute nothing to its support. A magnet for Northbound Negroes ever since World War II, the city is overburdened with unskilled workers whose families have strained the welfare system and glutted the schools. When large plants like Swift, Armour and Alcoa pulled out for better locations, they left behind a seething, sickened slum...
...northbound train, a train to Cambridge, or even to Boston, was what we longed after. In the delicatessen, in the fire station, among the hoots of the boy scout troops lost on an outing, in the deep sad faces of the traffic cop, we longed for you New England, even for your snow with your different quiet, and different peace, and acceptance of these mysteries of cold and ice. The Long Island Expressway writhes in disbelief--it seems impossible that stupid dumb precipitation, which doesn't know Anybody, has no connections, has never worked its way up, could come between...
...Northeast, in particular, suffered from the vernal cold snap that oldtimers call "dogwood winter." New York City shivered through its coldest spring in 50 years, and May seemed to disappear altogether, with temperatures averaging 7.2° below normal. Thousands of northbound scarlet tanagers and other birds-whose migratory urge is regulated by the lengthening of the days rather than the rising of the mercury-starved to death for lack of caterpillars, which hatched three weeks late...
There was no question but what the new ferry was welcome. Already, more than 17,000 reservations have been booked by northbound tourists for this season, another 1,500 for next year. Not only does the new service open up the 330-mile inside passage from Kelsey Bay on Vancouver Island to Prince Rupert, B.C.'s largest northern port, but the ship's 20-hour run also eliminates 800 miles of driving to get to the panhandle of Alaska. In fact, by continuing northward from Prince Rupert on the three-year-old Alaska Ferry Service, the motorist...