Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Executives of the airlines have come to realize that low fares and on-time performance attract more passengers than do frills and filet mignons. Eastern Air Lines has had good success with its new air shuttle linking New York, Washington and Boston with older prop planes. Passengers have no reservations but are promised a seat, pay for their tickets aboard. Fares are lower (by some 16%) in return for Spartan service (passengers wheel their own bags to the loading gate, and water is the only flight-time refreshment). Profit-making United Air Lines is trimming costs by serving more modest...
...attract even more new playwrights, he pays the expenses of young unproduced dramatists who observe Bucks County plays in rehearsal. Ellis recalls that Life with Father was first produced in a summer theater near Skowhegan, Me., and his eye is clearly set on the box offices of Manhattan...
Urban Renewal. The House bill would spend $2 billion, as against the Senate's $2.5 billion, during the next four years to help cities rebuild blighted areas. Cities would buy up decaying sections, raze the buildings and attract private buyers for the land by selling it at a loss. In turn, the Federal Government would reimburse the cities for their losses. Cities with populations under 50,000 would get back three-fourths of their costs; bigger cities would get back two-thirds...
...additional routes. To shore up Northeast, which began as a regional carrier in New England, the board five years ago granted the line the right to fly the blue-ribbon New York-Miami route, which Eastern and National Airlines were already flying. Against such entrenched lines, Northeast could not attract enough passengers to make money for itself, and it cut so deeply into Eastern's and National's traffic that they began losing money on what had been a profitable...
...Radcliffe House system lives up to Mrs. Bunting's expectations, clearly it will bring improvements other than adequate space and lighting and a reasonable amount of privacy. Casual friendships between students and Faculty members--or those families Mrs. Bunting hopes to attract--could gently alter the intellectual atmosphere. 'Cliffies might stop feeling and all too often behaving as if they were losing in a competition with Harvard for Faculty attention. The desperate grind might desert her study corner for the intellectual give-and-take in a Harvard-style dining room. The party girl might be stimulated to individual research through...