Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Head Start in Mississippi" tells of the war within the war on poverty, focusing on the rise and fall of the pilot Head Start group in Durant, Miss...
...because No. 1's share of the rent a car business is getting smaller," cites a drop from 56% to 50% in Hertz's share of the market in 26 key places since the original Avis campaign began. Another reason is that Ally, a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War, does not mind a good scrap-even with a mogul like William Bernbach, the creative boss at Doyle Dane who thought up the dramatically successful Avis campaign...
...Chicago. This week a Fort Wayne businessman will attempt to help the hurt. Onetime Test Pilot George H. Bailey will start flying HUB Airlines, into which he is pouring $750,000. Using three Beech Queen Airliners, HUB will provide four round trips daily between Fort Wayne and Meigs Airport in downtown Chicago. Next month the service will be expanded to Cincinnati, and eventually HUB expects to be flying between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland as well. HUB and a company called Altair Airlines, which begins Philadelphia-Albany service this week with interplant General Electric executives as its primary...
Thus commuter lines have sprung up everywhere. Beginning service a year ago in Ames, Iowa, with two planes and eight employees, onetime B-26 Pilot Paul G. Delman has built his Commuter Airlines into a bustling business that today has a monthly haul of 3,500 passengers from such places as Ames and Sheboygan, Wis., to Chicago. Midstate Air Commuter Service in three years has built a profitable business linking the isolated paper-industry towns of Wisconsin to Chicago. Pilgrim Airlines of New London, Conn., which currently shuttles to Kennedy International Airport 74 times a week, in four years...
Some 35 miles farther south on Hawaii is Johno Jackson's isolated plush-primitive Kona Village, three months old. Jackson is a World War II P-51 pilot and California oil millionaire who delights in spinning tales of ancient Hawaii for his guests, offers them skin diving, sunfish sailing, and trips in his Jeep across the cinder beds and lava fields to explore ancient native burial caves. In the sleepy village of Kailua-Kona, close to some of the most exciting fishing grounds of the world (bonefish, blue marlin, Ahi and the jack crevalle), the venerable Kona...