Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anticipation of the award, Western Airlines alone added 35 planes to its fleet, and it blames the delay in the CAB ruling for 31% of the line's $5,100,000 loss during the first five months of 1969. The long-disputed South Pacific route award finally went to American Airlines, which will fly to Australia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand. In addition, the CAB last week granted new or extended routes to twelve domestic airlines in the vast "Southern Tier" stretching from Florida to California...
Opinions vary on just how-and how much-sales will be affected by an advertising fadeout on the air waves. In Britain, where cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1965, sales dipped at first, then recovered and went to new highs. In the U.S., per capita sales began declining last year, partly because young sters no longer feel the social need to smoke. They have been increasingly concerned about the health hazards, particularly since mid-1967, when the networks were forced to air antismoking commercials on TV. Indeed, the tobaccomen's decision to turn off their tremendously expensive...
...formerly an editor and director of Macmillan and Co., Wells' London publisher, cannot quite forgive the man who blithely sold the masses on the future. But he makes clear that Wells was the first gulled victim of his own salesmanship, and that with his extraordinary capacity for hope went an extraordinary capacity for disenchantment. Inside the complacent optimist, a desperate pessimist was signaling wildly...
...drivers and helpers voted Tuesday almost unanimously in favor of rep- resentation by Teamsters Local 82. They went back to work, allowing the union to negotiate their specific grievances with Morgan Memories...
After this nadir, the concert got under way in earnest. The last two movements of the Mozart went quite well. They chose exciting tempi and played with admirable feeling and expression. The final Allegro was particularly pleasing with a nice rhythmic drive, and exactness of nuance, and an attention to phrasing which deserve praise...