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...which can order the fare cuts if the airlines balk, was aroused by pressure in Congress and by the industry's earnings jump after 1963. Profits of the eleven trunk lines rose astronomically, from $10.7 million in 1963 to $136.5 million last year, and will rise even higher in 1965. As a group, the lines have slightly topped the 10.5% return on investment that the CAB considers equitable, and several are doing much better than that...
Service Trouble. His complaints dated back to 1958. For one thing, the company billed him for two trunk lines when he only wanted one. In 1961, when he made an abortive campaign for city attorney, most of his speeches were directed at the phone company, which, he charged, "gives us a pushing around." At that time, Garrett promised that if elected, he would see to it that the phone rates were reduced. But Garrett quit the campaign because he was getting no support...
Extra Pillows. Nearly half of Treadway's inns are summer resorts that cater to what used to be known as "the steamer-trunk and rocking-chair fleet." But today's profit is in country inns and in motels that cater to transients and conventions, and Treadway is concentrating on these in its expansion. Despite the added costs of running a chain of inns in which neither the food, the décor nor the furniture are standardized, Treadway has set an enviable earnings record: on its $16 million in sales last year, it was among industry leaders...
Throughout the Mekong Delta, trunk canals and irrigation ditches are filling, and Viet Cong units will soon be back to a favorite mode of transportation: elusive sampans. The riot of rain-fed foliage in the jungles and swamps provides better concealment for the Red guerrillas, while battle-weary government troops are compelled to slog through waist-deep mud. To both sides the monsoon brings misery: boots and web belts rot, weapons rust even under oilcloth, leeches drop from wet branches, and a thin green slime covers everything...
...Libby and his colleagues peeled the annual rings of wood from the trunk of an Arizona Douglas fir. The rings formed in 1909, one year after the explosion, showed a small but unmistakable excess of radioactivity. This indicates, say the authors guardedly, that about one-seventh of the energy in the Siberian explosion came from antimatter...