Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electronic Reservations. An electronic reservations system that can instantly tell Western Air Lines ticket clerks throughout its U.S. system what seats are available on all flights was put into operation, the first in the airline industry. Built around a memory drum, the system permits 96 reservations desks to book and cancel flights, immediately inform passengers of schedule changes...
...vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California's liberal Governor Earl Warren. Halleck has never lost a chance to tell Dewey that the 1948 vote would have gone Republican had the second man on the ticket, no matter what his leaning, been a real fighter for the party...
...Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera, a puppet play, an Everyman performance, on merely a piece of cheese and a little spaghetti. Faced with the choice between either a good meal or another tankful of gasoline and an opera ticket, they invariably renounce the meal -as they should...
There was no sign that the Soviet Union's blasting of a satellite toward orbit around the sun would result in any immediate monetary shot in the arm for the American space program. Rather, indications developed that the heavily Democratic Congress convening Wednesday may write its own ticket in the months ahead on funds for defense and allied operations. Eisenhower's figure is up only 100 millions over the current budget...
...figure dipped to 25.1?, more than 12% below the industry's average. Nyrop, who pared the CAA budget by $15 million and whittled CAB's mail payments by $13 million a year, cut costs at Northwest by poking into every detail. He turned up behind ticket counters, spent off-hours flying Northwest's 20,000-mile system to find tiny economies...