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...FARE HIKE was granted to twelve domestic and trunk lines. Increase effective July 1, will come in form of additional 2½% charge on each ticket plus $1 for each one-way ticket. New fares will raise revenues by about $84 million annually...
WOMAN PROVES BODY IN TRUNK ISN'T HERS
...still living in Guinea are harassed at every turn. Some have been jailed for failing to stand up in theaters when Guinea's national anthem was played; one drew three months ("willful deterioration of Guinea's national heritage") for practicing with a revolver against the trunk of a mango tree. Airline officials have laid on 25 extra flights in the next few weeks to take care of Frenchmen and their families headed for home...
...hand in both problems. After World War II, many airlines exuberantly overexpanded. Instead of using its power to impose restraint, CAB approved patchwork and often uneconomic route structures. Result: subsidy payments to airlines jumped from $19.7 million in 1946 to $83.8 million in 1950, before dropping again. Though all trunk lines are now off subsidy, CAB expects to dole out $69.3 million in fiscal 1961 to small feeder airlines, which still do not have enough money to replace their obsolete equipment...
...adopting a policy of trying to strengthen middle-sized regional trunk lines, CAB awarded them long hauls already amply served by the major lines. Today seven markets are served by five or more airlines; in 1955 there were none. Sometimes, as in the case of Delta and Braniff airlines, the plan worked. Often everyone got hurt. Says American Airlines President C. R. Smith: "Competition is good. It becomes bad when it is wasteful and there is insufficient business to provide a profit even for the most efficient...