Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allegheny had led the way with their respective half-and two-thirds fare plans, beginning January 21, 1966. The Civil Aeronautics Board not only approved a Youth Fare scheme; it dismissed the complaints filed by the other airlines who wanted to see Youth Fare killed in its infancy. (Bonanza and several other carriers had tried Youth Fare briefly in 1961, but lost money on the service...
...last time anyone really got excited about the terrain was in the last third of the 19th century, when prospectors discovered what seemed to be rich veins of gold, silver, copper and lead. The bonanza was short-lived, but the mountain's enticing name endured: Mineral King, an area of majestic 12,000-ft. peaks in California's eastern Sierras, 228 miles north of downtown Los Angeles...
...five top Nielsen-rated shows of the current season, three were NBC's. The ranking: 1) Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC), 2) Mayberry, R.F.D. (CBS), 3) Corner Pyle-U.S.M.C. (CBS), 4) Bonanza (NBC), 5) Julia...
...line was the product of a unique three-way merger that in 1968 brought together Pacific Air Lines of San Francisco, Phoenix-based Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. None of the three was big enough to boss the other two, and the result of divided leadership was snarled schedules and fouled-up reservations. The Bank of America, which financed the merger with $54 million and expected its money back by Jan. 1, advised Air West's management to sell the company "before it is no longer at tractive." Meanwhile, no more loans...
...about $94 million, set off a turbulent board room brawl. Air West Chairman Nick Bez, 73, former head of West Coast and a generous contributor to the Democratic Party in Washington State, spoke for Hughes. Lined up against him were Vice Chairman Edmund Converse, for mer head of Bonanza, and President G. Robert Henry. They insisted that Air West has enormous potential and that the offer, made through the Hughes Tool Co., was far too low. Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest and most progressive part of the country. You couldn't have a better territory...