Word: ago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule that allows each line to begin flying one new route each year without having to get the Civil Aeronautics Board's assent. Insists United Airlines Chairman Richard Ferris: "About 98% of the traveling public has as much or more service available today than a year ago...
...fuel, which cost 25? per gal. in 1970, is now 70? and rising fast; today fuel accounts for about 30% of an airline's operating costs, up from 16% only two years ago. Having earned more than $1 billion in the first nine months of 1978, the industry cleared only $580 million in the same period this year, and all carriers are scrambling to cut costs. TWA has laid off 2,500 employees; and United, which was grounded by a long strike last spring and is now being hurt by passengers cashing in and flying on half-fare coupons...
Another beneficiary has been Air Florida, one of the many smaller carriers across the country that have been able to spread their wings under deregulation. Two years ago, it was just another rickety one-state airline, linking six Florida cities with half a dozen planes. Today it is an aggressive regional carrier that serves 23 cities, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York, with a fleet of jets. This fiscal year it turned its first real profit: $2.4 million. Says Chairman C. Edward Acker: "Without deregulation we'd still be tiny. It has given us the ability to move...
...long ago, Big Jock Ewing looked down his long dining room table and said to his wife, "This family's falling apart. I tell you, it's falling apart." What Jock was complaining about was that there were some empty seats at the table...
...Willie, say goodbye to America." With those words, Willie Mays ended his active baseball career six years ago. For 20 seasons with the Giants and two with the Mets, he had played the game with consummate skill and boundless joy. Under a $50,000-a-year contract with the Mets, Mays remained a goodwill ambassador for baseball, making publicity appearances and occasionally tutoring young hitters in the Mets' farm system. This summer he was inducted into the Hall of Fame after receiving more votes for baseball's highest honor than any other player in history...