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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a steady climb to this peak for John R. Cash, 37. A solid coun-try-and-western success since 1955, he has occasionally crossed the boundaries and sold to the wider pop audience (Ring of Fire, I'll Walk the Line). He was rediscovered by the public at large last year when his At Folsom Prison climbed to the top of the charts and sold over 1,000,000 albums. In 1968, he made $2,000,000, and this year things look even better...
...rising need. The shortage has created profitable business possibilities for entrepreneurs. Doctors, lawyers, salesmen, even a talent agent and a junk dealer, have started chains of nursing homes, which live largely off federal funds. Investors have rushed to buy shares in the more than 50 chains that have gone public in the past four years. Stock prices have been commonly bid up to 50 or 100 times earnings, which is three to six times more than a blue chip commands in the market. This fevered growth and speculation raises serious questions. How sound are the chains as businesses? How well...
...quotas have forced airlines to spread flights more evenly throughout the day and night, despite the public's preference for departures at dinnertime. The flights that the airlines have shifted to off-hours are mostly those headed for smaller towns; thus, a traveler destined for Podunk or Puddle Junction may have to go at 10 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. The quotas also sharply reduce the number of private-plane landings during busy hours...
Construction of improved air towers, radar and instrument landing systems has been hampered by the tendency of Congress to keep appropriations low except when crashes focus public attention on air safety. This parsimony seems dangerous in view of the fact that in the U.S. last year the number of fatal accidents in general aviation increased 15%, and the number of airline fatalities per 100 million passenger-miles rose from...
...part of its "Happiness Campaign," TWA divided its employees into groups according to their job categories and the size of the cities in which they are based. The groups compete against each other to see which can best please the public. The judges are the customers; they mark ballots to cite those who give them the snappiest service. Employees in winning groups receive $100 each and a chance to draw for bigger prizes ranging up to a sports car or $2,700 in cash...