Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down with Fantasy. As in a traffic jam, the slowdown was felt all along the line. A leading Atlanta department store stopped its practice of "open ordering" (i.e., buying anything that wholesalers will sell). New York retailers began to tell manufacturers to deliver by certain dates or they would cancel the orders. They were no longer willing to take goods any time in the future-and get caught with top-heavy inventories. (This week the New Jersey Bakers Board met to consider a general shutdown to force flour prices down...
...first time in the air age a pilots' strike grounded a major U.S. airline. It involved 1,100 members of the exclusive Air Line Pilots Association (A.F.L.), forced Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. to cancel flights over 28,270 miles of foreign and domestic routes...
...while operating costs are going up. United's load factor (percentage of seats filled) had dropped 4% in three weeks. Patterson was sure that it would drop even more sharply when winter weather disrupts airline schedules. And air lanes have become so crowded that United has decided to cancel flights this winter 200 miles ahead of destinations where more than ten planes are "stacked up" waiting to land. This, Patterson admitted, will result in the poorest flying record in years. At the same time, operating costs have risen so much that United now has to fill...
This week, with CAB permission, the domestic airlines finally clamped down on no-shows. From now on, passengers who fail to cancel their reservations before flight time, unless the flight is canceled by the airline itself, will be charged 25% of the fare when they apply for a refund on the unused ticket...
Also protesting against the charge was the Education Association which replied publicly that if they were not assured of courtesy and "freedom from interference" that they would hold the convention elsewhere or cancel it altogether...