Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showdown had come. So far as the independent carriers could make out, the issue was plain: Would the scheduled airlines, which had been slow to wake up to air freight's possibilities, be permitted to drive the independents out of business? The scheduled lines' weapon was a rate war - the 12?-per-ton-mile tariff recently proposed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by American, United and Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying air mail...
...still flying. The biggest of these is Slick Airways, Inc., of San Antonio. Last week, the line's young (26) president, Earl F. Slick, who is also president of Independent Airfreight Association, laid the independents' case before the President's Air Policy Commission. "If this rate goes through," he warned, "we'll all be bankrupt in six months...
Slick argued that on present air-freight volume, the proposed rate was less than cost. Slick knew what he was talking about. His line had flown 14 million revenue ton-miles in 1946, almost as much as all the scheduled airlines together...
While upwards of 45,000 banner-waving fans file into Soldiers Field this afternoon, over in Medford a well-trained Varsity soccer team opens its season against the Jumbos from Tufts College. With returning lettermen at seven of the 11 positions, the booters rate an edge over Tufts which in the past has never been noted for particularly strong soccer squads...
...Houses are reporting vacancies for the 20 extra men allotted to each at a great rate," he continued. Watson praised the cooperation of both University officials and students, which he said greatly speeded the exodus from the gym floor...