Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study is trying to remain as noncommittal as possible, according to Selfert, and is taking even the remotest possibilities into consideration. To be successful, however, any new form of transportation would have to offer both a speed and a fare comparable to those of the airlines...
Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan Players will depart from their traditional fare to produce in April The Threepenny Opera, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht...
Aeronautics Board, which is now considering what to do about the fare-cutting fight. United also sells ten-trip commuter tickets for $137.75, and all but TWA woo commuter business by providing quick baggage checkin, preprinted tickets sold at the gate and easy-to-remember schedules...
Coloring Books. Now that the other lines have countered with competitive fares and schedules and newer equipment (P.S.A.'s jets will not be delivered until next spring), Pacific Southwest intends to depend even more on its friendly and informal approach. Its stewardesses distribute airplane coloring books and "first flight" certificates to children, pass out holiday greeting cards that poke gentle fun at passengers. P.S.A.'s reservation clerks are surrounded by signs that say: "Pleasant Service A-lways." The line even sponsors contests, sometimes awarding the free use of a whole Electra as a prize. And when its president...
...running footnote to British history. Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea. At home, Fortnum picnic hampers have always been de rigueur fare at Derby Day, Eton-Harrow cricket matches or an Oxford-Cambridge boat race. Dickens praised Fortnum's provender, and Benjamin Disraeli, after a hard day in Parliament, was met by his wife with "a pie from Fortnum and Mason's and a bottle of champagne." "My dear," he winked...