Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FARE BOOST will be asked by United Air Lines. Nation's No. 2 domestic air-passenger carrier on March 1 will petition CAB for 6% hike on all passenger flights in order to offset higher costs...
...rails, the nation's No. 1 rail carrier, Pennsylvania Railroad, steamed in with its best total in three years, a 6% rise to $991 million, but income crept up only 1% to $41.5 million. Helped by higher freight rates, Erie Railroad sales rose 9% to $175 million, while profits were up only $200,000, to $8,100,000. Union Pacific's gross income of $514 million bettered 1955's by $5,000,000, but earnings were off $600,000 to $78.6 million...
...Boing Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). Gerald and "The Election," "The 51st Dragon." "Ballet Lesson." Air Power (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). "The Japanese Perimeter," the story of how the U.S. Navy and Air Force crushed enemy carrier forces at Midway...
...Hands. During World War II, Brown served notably as 1) a member of Fleet Admiral Ernest King's staff in Washington, 2) commander of the escort carrier Kalinin Bay in the Pacific, 3) chief of staff of Carrier Division One from Leyte Gulf to the shores of Japan. Eleven more years of staff work and carrier command in the Pentagon and Mediterranean won him his third star and command of the Sixth Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold...
ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHTS will be offered early in 1957 by Trans World Airlines, second U.S. carrier to do so (first: Pan American World Airways). T.W.A. got CAB approval to extend its route eastward from Bombay and Ceylon to Manila, link up there with Northwest Airlines...