Word: discounters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cultural separatism. "We've been very loose as far as ideological manifestoes go," says Ward, "but we are Negro oriented and we don't apologize for that." The ensemble has distributed posters to beauty parlors, barbershops and small retailers in Harlem and Newark, offered tickets at a discount price of $1.50 in Negro areas. Ward has ordered 20 seats per night to be held for Negroes who show up on the spur of the moment at the box office. But talent has no color line. The care and skill displayed in the production of Song of the Lusitanian...
...Federal Reserve Board's increase in the discount rate from 4% to 4½% in November was primarily a reaction to international pressures on the dollar created by the devaluation of the British pound. Many observers saw it also as a domestic signal that the Fed was disturbed by inflationary pressures that continued to rise even as Congress was refusing to pass a surtax. Last week Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors tipped another signal that they are worried about inflation. The board ordered an increase in the reserves of its member banks. The order affected...
...Fares. What concerns the airlines most is their patchwork domestic-fare structure. Last year 60% of their revenue passengers traveled on one sort of cut-rate fare or another, paying an average of only 4.350 a mile as against 6.750 a mile for travelers who paid full fares. Moreover, discount fares are costly to administer; sometimes they cause serious delays in ticketing and boarding while counter clerks rifle through tariff books in search of a cheaper fare among, for example, the 48 possibilities from New York to San Francisco. CAB recently allowed the carriers a slight curtailment in use plus...
...city is Honolulu. Its appeal is neither its hula dancers nor its beaches. It is simply that Hawaii is a geographical midway point for a rendezvous with a wife or a sweetheart for five brief days. The expense can be staggering, even though Hawaiian hotels offer a discount to military personnel. But month after month, more R&R-ers (some 7,290-odd) take the long trek to Hawaii than anywhere else...
...Thomas' death, collectors still mourn those burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University of New York for $101. Others may yet turn up, but these are enough to discount fully the romantic belief of his pre-hippie worshipers, who liked to think that their boozy, wenching golden boy had reached out carelessly and seized his lovely lines as they drifted into his alcoholic haze...