Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stockholders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad were as popular last week as a fare cut to commuters. Three weeks ago the money-making Chesapeake & Ohio Railway offered to buy 80% of the B. & O.'s stock, and won the blessing of B. & O.'s management. Last week the New York Central Railroad, afraid of such a merger, which would create the second largest railroad in the U.S. and make competitive life hard for the Central, also made a move to woo B. & O. stockholders...
...paying his own hotel bills-but demands a 25% commercial discount in the U.S. A CAB ruling prohibits airlines from letting newsmen fly free on scheduled flights, but some travel editors evade the ruling by selling "reprint rights" of their articles to the airlines for the price of the fare-plus a few extra dollars to make the transaction look better. The airlines sometimes exercise the reprint rights in their house organs, especially if the writer has made lavish and approving mention of the host carrier. Travel copy is singularly noncritical. "Let's face it," says the Denver Post...
...FARE HIKE was granted to twelve domestic and trunk lines. Increase effective July 1, will come in form of additional 2½% charge on each ticket plus $1 for each one-way ticket. New fares will raise revenues by about $84 million annually...
...Right, Jack. Sellers again, this time as a union shop steward who will make a speech at the drop of an aitch, in a film that takes a cracking good satirical look at labor-management relations in England and the share-fare state which makes the impossible improbably funny...
...Danube and Swiss lakes, with a single $125 ticket valid for two months. Rail bargains are being offered by Britain and Ireland: a 1,000-mile tourist ticket for $34 first class and nine-day unlimited-mileage tickets for $39. Switzerland's weekend rail trips offer a return fare almost free, and in the Scandinavian countries tourists are being offered fare cuts...