Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extension students, more than one-fourth of all extension students on U.S. public campuses. The part-timers' course hours were the equivalent of those of a fulltime campus with 12,000 students. The entire operation costs $8,000,000. of which the state pays only 9%. Tuition and ticket sales cover the rest...
...when he showed up at St. Louis' airport an hour before he was scheduled to take off for Los Angeles on TWA's Flight 77, he was told that his seat in the tourist-class section of the plane had been given to a ticket-holding fellow traveler-from first class...
Wills decided to sue, acted as his own attorney in the case. Says Wills: "I'm a guy who can be pushed sideways, but not backwards. What made me mad was the idea of this fellow jerking the ticket out of my hand." At the trial, he pointed out that his tourist reservation was made prior to the first-class reservation of the passenger for whom he was bumped and contended that he, a tourist-class passenger, had been discriminated against...
...have sold, and the no-shows demand (and get) their money back. The U.S.'s eleven major airlines recently reached agreement on a new policy: in the future, no-shows who do not cancel their reservations before flight time will not be refunded the full price of their ticket-the penalty will be about 50% of the fare up to a maximum of $50. If CAB approves, the new rule will go into effect March...
...makes economic sense for both sides. Both presidents deny that the new line would be monopolistic, since it would still face from one to seven competitors on all its major routes. They figure that the merger would save them $50 million a year, mainly by eliminating overlapping in routes, ticket counters and hangars. But instead of closing either Eastern's sprawling maintenance center at Miami or American's still bigger plant at Tulsa, they may well let each plant handle what it is best geared...