Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complaints from the nation's bus lines have also forced airlines into a re-examination of their reduced fare policies. Trailways Bus Lines is currently seeking an injunction against Eastern for the severe losses the surface companies have suffered since the advent of youth fare...
...added that the Israelis had now started to improve and widen them. At the Government Tourist Bureau in Tel Aviv I asked how I could get to Nablus, the most prosperous city of the West Bank, some 50 miles from Tel Aviv. I was informed that there was no bus, unless I wanted to travel via Jerusalem. So I went...
...American kind of hero--a pioneer. His Montgomery bus boycott gave birth to black Civil Rights activism. And his quintessential moment was a 1963 speech about a dream...
...bus, a civilian spin-off of Lockheed's C-5A military transport program, will carry passengers eight across in coach class and six across in first class. Two aisles toward the sides of the plane will separate the eight seats into a two-four-two arrangement. The plane can also carry 345 people, all in tourist class. Meals will be cooked on a lower deck, sent by elevator to the passenger level. The Rolls engines will carry the big jets 3,160 miles at speeds equivalent to today's jets, but the L-101ls will need less landing...
...Setback. Lockheed Chairman Daniel J. Haughton announced that the present L-1011 work force of 1,200 will increase to 11,000 by next year. Haughton was equally pleased that with last week's order, Lockheed had outflanked rival McDonnell Douglas, whose DC-10 is a similar air bus. McDonnell two months ago sold 25 DC-10s to American Airlines at $16 million apiece; American also has an option to buy 25 more. Lockheed's response was to slash L-1011 prices from $17 million to $15 million each, and coolly advise prospective customers to buy fast-before...