Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flamboyant O. Roy Chalk has made millions in Manhattan real estate, but as a transportation magnate he has sometimes spun his wheels. He failed in a bid to buy the New York City subway system some years ago, and the deteriorating bus service provided by his D.C. Transit System has annoyed Washingtonians. He founded Trans Caribbean Airways in 1945, and has since run it as a family company: his wife is secretary and interior decorator, his brother-in-law is executive vice president, and a son-in-law is a director. The line lost money heavily last year, and Chalk...
...Chalk's line, which flies only out of New York, Newark and Washington, sorely needs the traffic that American can generate for it. By taking over Trans Caribbean's routes, American plans to fly vacationers from such cities as Boston, Chicago and Detroit to the Caribbean rather than making them transfer to other lines at coastal airports. The addition of Trans Caribbean would also make American, which hopes to begin flights to Hawaii and the South Pacific this year, a two-ocean airline...
...Share. The proposed merger continues a movement toward airline consolidations that began in November, when Northwest and Northeast Airlines agreed on the first major merger since 1961. If the Government allows American to buy out Trans Caribbean, Chalk will become probably the largest individual shareholder in American. He would get approximately 245,000 common shares, based on his last reported Trans Caribbean holdings. That would easily be enough to entitle him to a seat on the American board. Airline men think, however, that Chalk has had about enough of transportation ventures and will devote himself mostly to his other interests...
...decency only estrange her from her lover and mark her as a doomed woman in the eyes of the peasants. The act culminates in a surrealistic, semi-improvised dream sequence, where the characters, each physicalizing his own brand of hatred, converge on the girl from the edges of the chalk circle, suffocating her with their ugliness...
...Chalk Circle performance, the company approaches the surrounding audience and, with different cadences, speak personal versions of Brecht's closing lines...