Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales of $1.02 billion. Eastern's profits went from $14,713,000 to $24,114,000. Despite the apparent improvement, though, most airlines are suffering because of huge outlays for new planes, rising labor costs and the low profitability of their myriad fare-discount plans...
Wizard (no longer on the air), NBC's Animal Secrets, ABC's Discovery and CBS's Young People's Concerts, most of the shows are misguided attempts based on what adults think children want to see. The rest of the fare is an endless round of superheroes rapping and zapping assorted monsters...
...Some two dozen private, nonprofit travel clubs quickly formed to put that principle to work, manning the cockpits with moonlighting commercial pilots and retired military aviators, staffing the cabins with ex-stewardesses-and flying off for weekend vacations that cost members 50% to 75% less in air fare than the cheapest scheduled flights...
Olive Volleyball. Membership costs vary from club to club, but usually include an initiation fee ($100 to $150), annual dues ($50 to $100), plus the club's cut-rate fare for the trips that a subscriber elects to make. Most are weekend hops, as many as 40 a year, and by taking as few as two of them, a member comes out ahead. Favorite destinations include New Orleans (for Mardi Gras), the Caribbean and Mexico. One popular destination is simply labeled Unknown-clubs have found that the planes are fullest for "mystery" flights, for which members are told only...
...Later. When the plane touched down in Miami, the cabin rang with cheers and applause. And why not? Though the flight took four hours (v. 2 hrs. 15 min. for a jet), club members were paying only $111 each for round-trip air fare, two days of food and lodging, and a ticket to the game -nearly one-third less than the cheapest Super Bowl package offered by the airlines. And one economy leads to another. Social Worker John Butler, 58, joined the Roamers in early December, "so I could do my Christmas shopping in St. Croix." There are also...