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...Airlines, which serves New England and also has a New York-Miami route. For TWA, merger with Northeast will complete the New York-Miami leg of its triangle between the West Coast, Miami and New York. Although TWA will be stuck with Northeast's money-losing New England feeder services, it will pick up passengers for its long-haul and international runs. To Northeast, which lost $7,000,000 last year and is still in the red, merger will provide seriously needed working capital...
...impose restraint, CAB approved patchwork and often uneconomic route structures. Result: subsidy payments to airlines jumped from $19.7 million in 1946 to $83.8 million in 1950, before dropping again. Though all trunk lines are now off subsidy, CAB expects to dole out $69.3 million in fiscal 1961 to small feeder airlines, which still do not have enough money to replace their obsolete equipment...
...took on dramatic meaning last week when seven big power feeder lines, strained beyond capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of Manhattan with a population of 500,000. At about 3 p.m., the blackout shadows fell impartially across every social stratum in the nation's most complex city: millionaires in air-cooled Park Avenue apartments sweated in the unaccustomed heat, while across Central Park, Puerto Rican kids swarmed from the tenements and splashed happily...
...southern end of a projected 36-inch pipeline from Marseille to Karlsruhe. Sahara's natural gas might be transported to Europe either by tankers specially built to carry it in liquid form or by a trans-Mediterranean pipeline through Spain. And Algeria itself will benefit from a feeder line to carry gas from Hassi R'Mel to the steel plant which by De Gaulle's decree is to be built near...
...Classes of '58 to '61, only 35.4 per cent of students admitted from these "feeder schools" made the Dean's List, compared to 39.9 per cent of all students. In addition, 9.5 per cent did "unsatisfactory" work, whereas only 8.8 per cent of all students fell into this category...