Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment in bigger, faster planes, and their patient plugging of such promotional stunts as the Air Coach and the Family Fare Plan (wives & children travel half-fare on slack midweek days). They had managed to raise their average load factor-the percentage of seats occupied-from 57% to 66.7%, reach the point where every additional traffic gain caused a bigger proportional rise in profits...
...them to refund some $5,000,000 on airmail overpayments dating back to 1947. The airlines were doing so well they raised not a single squawk. With the new 45? rate which CAB proposes as the actual cost-plus-reasonable-profit of carrying the mail, the Big Four will reach a historic milestone: for the first time, all were officially free of any Government subsidy...
Most American men do not want a life of complete leisure when they reach retirement age. So Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. concluded last week after polling 3,000 of its policyholders of all ages. Results: only 24% wanted to stop working altogether at retirement age, 39% hoped to cut down their work load slightly, while 37% preferred to keep going full steam as long as they could. Their favorite goal for part-time occupation after retirement: small-scale farming. Most popular hobby: hunting & fishing...
...long, long reach which-if it should get past the Senate-will probably run into a presidential veto...
Until solicitation gets under way, or if the number of volunteers is too small to reach everyone, Campbell added, contributions can also be left with Miss Davis...