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...than 1,500,000 passengers, 50.4% of all those flying the route v. Western's 27.8%, United's 18.1% and TWA's 3.7%. Under its aggressive president, ex-R.A.F. Pilot J. Floyd Andrews, 48, P.S.A. early took a firm lead on the route by pioneering low-cost commuter service, offering the most frequent flights and compiling a good record of on-time arrivals and departures...
...system, one set of rules and prices." Despite their startling success in reducing industrial divisions among themselves in the seven years since the Common Market was founded, the Six until now have had small luck in harmonizing their farm policies-largely because of the disparity between France's low-cost farm efficiency and Germany's cosseted high-cost output. Mansholt proposed an obvious solution: fix wheat, which is the key to the whole farm price scale, roughly halfway between the German and the French prices, at $106.25 per metric...
...which can be towed by an ordinary auto). Their owners tend to set them on foundations, skirt them with shrubbery and even porches. Manufacturers claim that, rather than mobility, they are selling a prefabricated, delivered-to-the-site house that is easy to relocate. "We are the answer to low-cost housing," says M.H.M.A. Managing Director Edward Wilson. "The home-builders can't do much about it. They're tied. We have moved into a vacuum." The makers of mobile homes have grown into a $1 billion industry of 200 firms, five of which now have annual sales...
...North Harvard area, which lies behind the Business School between North Harvard St. and Western Ave., is the site for BRA-planned high-rise, high-income apartments. It is presently occupied by older, low-cost, one-two-and three-family dwellings...
...million square yards of cloth to be used in products as diverse as automobile seats and jute suits. Nearby, Adamjee has just opened a new factory that will ensure even greater use of Pakistan's jute crop by producing particle board out of jute stems, providing a low-cost wood substitute for lumber-poor Pakistan. He is also almost single-handedly diversifying Pakistan's industry, using jute profits to build a $2.1 million cotton mill, a $6.3 million sugar refinery, a tea company and a vegetable-oil plant in other locations...