Word: fares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of only 175 relief cases v. no at the same time last year. When three bakeries gave the city welfare department "a small assortment" of day-old bread and cakes for distribution to welfare cases, only "seven arrived to obtain some of the free fare." Next day, said the paper, "16 clients appeared after being invited by telephone." Snapped the Journal: "If bread lines are established, we will...
...seat; 5 mi. from U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ballistic Missile Agency, Ordnance Guided Missile School; 2 R.R. lines (Southern Ry., Louisville and Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...
...FARE INCREASE of 6.6% (TIME, Feb. 3) starts this week. Though domestic lines still want more (15% to 20% boost), all carriers have filed for new rates, say that they will apply on all tickets after...
...airlines' mayday pleas for a fare boost, the Civil Aeronautics Board last August gave a majestic, bureaucratic answer. It was already conducting something called the General Passenger Fare Investigation, planned for hearings to go leisurely on until 1959. As they droned on, platoons of economists racked up 5,000 pages of testimony proving that 1) fares are now 9% lower than in 1949, while costs are astronomically higher, 2) the airlines cannot raise money to buy jet fleets. But all this failed to excite CAB. Not a single one of the five board members even bothered to show...
Last week this bureaucratic boondoggling angered the White House, which regards a commercial jet fleet as a transport reserve needed for national defense. It gave CAB a swift kick in the pants, told it, in effect, to give the lines immediate emergency relief. Promptly. CAB offered a 6.6% interim fare boost by a vote of three to two (Vice Chairman Chan Gurney voted against the boost on the ground that it should be 10%). If accepted, as expected, domestic trunklines will get a 4% raise, plus an additional $1 on each ticket, along with the hope that real relief will...