Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern roads got a forced lesson in low-fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...
...Eastern roads were not convinced. They credited better business to recovery not to lower fares. So last July, when facing Depression II, they persuaded ICC to up coach rates to 2½?. Immediate result: New York Central's August revenues dropped 17% from the same month in 1937, B. & O.'s dropped 19.5%, New Haven...
...Coach fares (now 2½? a mile): on a sliding scale, beginning at 2¼? for round trips up to 100 miles each way, down to 1.7? for trips over 900 miles...
...scaling down to 2.43? for round trips over 900 miles; corresponding cuts in the charges for upper berth Pullman space. (The Southern roads which have been operating at cut rates and have found them good, last week filed proposals with ICC for another 10% reduction in round-trip coach fares to a minimum...
...Coach Floyd Stahl's Varisty crew swings into action on Soldiers Field afternoon at 4 o'clock with a strong Alumni outfit providing the opposition. For the Crimson, the regular lineup will start the contest, and hurling duties will probably be divided equally among Slim Curtiss, Tom Mosley and Charley Brackett. Charley (No Hands) Heckel will be unable to play until the end of the week due to a sore throat...