Word: pan
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Trans Caribbean, picked up by Chalk 17 years ago for a paltry $60,000, is a similar success story. The line lured many Puerto Rico passengers away from bigger Eastern and Pan American by combining lower fares with free box lunches on economy runs and by putting on in-flight entertainment. The first U.S. charter airline since World War II to be certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board for scheduled flights, Trans Caribbean last week won a three-year MATS contract to fly service families to Europe. To handle the $3,500,000 worth of business that it is guaranteed...
...economically troubled U.S. aviation industry is more and more of the view that one can live more cheaply than two. The latest merger being talked about is global in its ambition: to merge Pan American World Airways and its only U.S. rival on the North Atlantic routes, Trans World Airlines...
Whatever the cause of the blasts, they found echoes in the U.S. In its unique way, Tin Pan Alley was joining in the protest against the Wall. Listed by Billboard as one of the "Hot 100" was a rock 'n' roll ditty titled West of the Wall (Big-top Records). Sample lyrics...
...Corpus Christi, Texas. Last week they sailed into New York harbor on the Queen Elizabeth. As careful budgeters, they had already purchased their tickets for every step of the way: round-trip from New York to Texas and back on American Airlines, one-way back to Britain on Pan American. After spending the night in a Manhattan hotel, they proceeded to Idlewild Airport for the Texas leg. Once airborne, the Woods settled back to enjoy their flight...
When the Woods landed in London 6½ hours later, Pan Am gallantly put them up overnight, next day jetted them back to New York, all with its compliments and with the comforting news that their return tickets to England on June 20 would still be good. Once again in the U.S., the Woods were escorted aboard an American Airlines flight for Texas. Deplaning in Corpus Christi at last, Charlie Wood paused to reflect on his 12,000-mile junket, murmured: "Worse than Columbus...