Word: denver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fronts from every corner of the world," says A.P. General Manager Wes Gallagher. "The supplemental just hit the high spots." Nevertheless, some papers have dropped U.P.I, after adding the supplemental. "If the supplementals grow as much in the next five years as they have in the past five," says Denver Post Managing Editor William H. Hornby, "metropolitan papers will begin to wonder if they need both of the regular wire services...
...event was won by a Denver University skier, Norwegian Terje Overland, who skied the 55-gate course in less than 50 seconds. Skiers who battled a fast, icy course Saturday, raced in the rain Sunday morning...
...Union Pacific's trains from Chicago to the West Coast still maintain a tradition of comfort and good service that continues to attract passengers. The Burlington, whose California and Denver Zephyrs used to carry peak loads only in summer, will spend $350,000 this winter jointly with Hertz Corp. to promote Colorado skiing. It has already been so successful that ski-season reservations on its trains must often be made months in advance...
...License. In their scramble for skilled hands, many industries have either had to relax their standards for hiring or launch costly on-the-job training programs. United Air Lines, the nation's largest line, is expanding its flight-training center in Denver at a cost of $25 million, has begun signing up trainees who lack a commercial pilot's license to meet its need for 800 new pilots a year. Pan American has dropped its insistence on a college degree. All four auto producers have set up training centers (General Motors has 30, Ford 56), summer seminars...
...Denver's DC (for Denver-Chicago) Trucking Co., Inc., the nation's seventh largest line (1964 revenues: $50 million), paid $2,000,000 to acquire an 85% interest in Amsterdam's West Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. Though West Friesland's business came to a modest $3,500,000 last year, the company operates in ten countries, far more than any other European line, and thus offers DC an ideal base for expansion. Italy's Fiat has agreed to take the remaining 15% interest as "a calling card that we are leaving with a prospective new customer...