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Male Plane. United Air Lines will start daily nonstop DC-6 flights on April 26 between New York and Chicago "for men only." The Executive will take off from New York at 5 p.m. E.S.T., while a similar eastbound flight will leave Chicago at 5 p.m. C.S.T. The only females aboard: two stewardesses, who will provide the latest market quotations, business publications, steak dinners and soft slippers. Cigar-and pipe-smoking, barred on most flights out of deference to women, will be "quite in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...United Air Lines, following a CAB suggestion, asked permission to cut its coast-to-coast coach fares from $110 to $99 eastbound and $88 westbound, with a $167 round-trip fare (v. $300 first class). It also asked for a new $24 coach rate between Chicago and New York. United's proposal, lowest transcontinental rate ever offered by a scheduled airline, came at the same time as National Airlines' request to cut its coach fare between New York and Miami from $53 to $43. T.W.A. also asked to cut fares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Easy Terms | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

After an all-night negotiating session, the ten-day-old strike at United Air Lines was over and 900 pilots manned their planes. At San Francisco, Captain James R. Appleby, 32, a veteran of eleven years with the company, was the second man off eastbound, roared up into the night headed for Denver and Chicago. On board the huge DC-6, his 45 passengers, among them a mother & father with their three children, settled back with pillows and magazines for the ten-hour flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: No Sign of Life | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...twelve years in grade-crossing accidents. State and railroad, at long last, were building an overpass. While the work was going on, trains were being run, one way at a time, over about 2,000 feet of "gantlet" tracks-with the left rail of the westbound track inside the eastbound rails. (A gantlet eliminates the need for a switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Late Train Home | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...wake of worldwide currency devaluation last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) there were plenty of bargains-and also considerable confusion over prices. Nowhere was the confusion greater than on the international airways. On all eastbound transatlantic flights out of New York, passengers paid the usual rate of $350. But in London, westbound passengers could fly on British planes for the old rate of ?86, a saving, under devaluation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Bargain Sale | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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