Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reprint rights" of their articles to the airlines for the price of the fare-plus a few extra dollars to make the transaction look better. The airlines sometimes exercise the reprint rights in their house organs, especially if the writer has made lavish and approving mention of the host carrier. Travel copy is singularly noncritical. "Let's face it," says the Denver Post's Hamby. "You start panning too many places and you won't have a travel section very long...
...routes, National-the nation's seventh-ranking airline-lacks the aircraft needed. It will probably find it difficult to raise the cash for new planes. Delta Air Lines, the sixth largest U.S. air carrier, is well fixed. But oddly enough, since hustling Delta is stronger, it got the less attractive routes. Its routes start in Atlanta and branch out only after Albuquerque to San Francisco and Los Angeles, while National's net starts in Miami, spreads out from Houston to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Stodola's recommendations must be acted on by the full...
...objection: it has a long-term debt of $393 million and makes fat and steady profits, while the Central has a debt of $976 million and has a spotty earnings record. A merger of the C. & O., the nation's biggest soft-coal carrier...
...Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the nation's biggest soft-coal carrier, offered to buy the stock of the Baltimore & Ohio as "the first step toward merger." The railroads have more than 11,000 miles of track and assets of $2.3 billion, would displace the Southern Pacific in the No. 2 spot, and rank only below the Pennsylvania. Another road deeply interested in the C. & O. merger is the New York Central. It has been talking to the two roads about a three-way merger that would make the biggest U.S. railroad, web the Eastern states with a network touching almost...
...exhibited, but 25 years passed before he could afford to have it cast in bronze. Yet Robus never lost his humor. He himself would refer to his graceful sculpture of a girl washing her hair as Soap in Her Eyes. He did Three Caryatids Without a Portico, a Water Carrier with a pitcher for a head ("Just a jughead, I guess"), and "a vase that takes its head off." Hugo Robus' figures have a fluid charm that makes them bend to unheard melodies and swirl to soundless rhythms. But only in the last five years have these figures brought...