Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competition from luxury liners. Many ships were already booked full for next summer while plane reservations lagged. To get the business back, American Overseas Airlines, Pan American Airways and T.W.A. cut their transatlantic round-trip rates for the winter to about 1⅓ the price of a single summer fare. Sample Pan Am rate: New York to London, $466.60, down from...
...American offered special family rates on the first three "off-peak" days of every week. Last week 744 families (the father pays full fare, wife & children only half) flew in American planes out of New York alone. American figures that the "family package" has boosted its DC-6 load-factor from...
Every British radio owner pays an annual fee of ?1. BBC operates on only three wave lengths: the "Light" (mostly variety shows and dance music), the "Home" (slightly heavier fare), and the "Third Program" (strictly cultural). Thousands of listeners add to BBC revenues by buying BBC publications. Radio Times, a sort of fan magazine and weekly listing of programs, has a 6,000,000 circulation; The Listener, which reprints BBC talks, goes to 140,000; London Calling is subscribed to by 16,000 listeners overseas...
Airlines. Some U.S. airlines raised their basic fares 10%-and started a rate war. Eastern, T.W.A. and United announced that they would also raise their extra-fare (DC6 and Constellation) rates, which had been around 10% higher than ordinary fares. American Airlines, which thought the traffic was already being charged all it would bear, kept the present fare on DC-6s, wiping out the extra-fare differential and underselling the other lines. The new basic fares brought the U.S. average to 6? a mile (highest since 1935), compared to a 3? average for railroad coach fares...
...vacationing Columnist John Crosby of the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Allen struck some ambiguous blows in radio's defense, managing at the same time to get a few elbow-jabs and nose-rubs into radio's face. Sample Allen opinions of the "romp, revel and enlightening fare" that packs the average radio...