Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come back to just now. Whatever the job prospects at home, they knew they could save money in the jobs at hand, with salaries ranging from $1,704 to $5,800 a year, with all expenses paid. And those who joined UNRRA could also be sure of getting their fare home paid if they stayed for at least a year...
...Government restrictions" were Britain's curt reply to Pan American's Juan Terry Trippe for cutting his New York-London fare from $572 to $275. The restrictions were ordered by Britain's Civil Air Ministry, headed by thin-faced Lord Winster, who recently drafted the bill to nationalize British Airlines. With those new rates, said Lord Winster's Civil Air Ministry, Pan Am could fly to London only twice a week. If Pan Am raised its fares to at least $375, it could make seven flights a week...
...this determined move to impose its own minimum fares, Britain had the potent help of Pan Am's chief competitor, American Overseas Airlines. In London, American Overseas' board chairman, John E. Slater, joyfully told a reporter: the Air Ministry had given American the right to fly seven planes a week into England-at its present high fare of $572. Pan Am would be cut from five flights to two. Reason for this favoritism: American was "willing to let the Governments," instead of competition, set the rates...
...American Airways last week made good on a promise. It slashed the New York-London fare from $572, one way, to $275, dropped the roundtrip fare to $495. Thus it became the first airline to set fares on a par with first-class steamer rates...
Under the new service, planes will leave Chicago every Monday morning, make the trip in 27 hours via Gander, Newfoundland, and Shannon Airport, at Rineanna, Eire. Fare: $605 one way, $1,095 round trip...