Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though. Trippe was convinced that the future of travel was in the air. With an inheritance, Trippe began a business with Long Island Airways in New York, a taxi service for the well-heeled. When that failed, he raised money from some wealthy Yale pals and joined Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract, between New York City and Boston. That same crowd liked to play in the Caribbean (excellent choice), where he created Pan American Airways Inc. from a merger of three groups. Trippe began service with a flight from Key West, Fla., to Havana, Cuba...
...York to London. He cut the round-trip fare more than half, to $275 ($1,684 in today's dollars, which makes current pricing a bargain, right?). This went over like a lead balloon in the industry, where air fares were fixed by a cartel, the International Air Transport Association; it didn't want to hear about the tourist class. Incredibly, Britain closed its airports to Pan Am flights that had tourist seats. Pan Am was forced to switch to remote Shannon, Ireland. The industry's aversion to competition and making travel affordable was to have a long life...
...popular historical tour. Although the outer body of the duck retains the unique 1940s design, the inside of each amphibious vehicle has been outfitted with 1990s technology. Automatic transmission, new internal wiring, added roofs and comfortable, cushioned seats have all helped to transform these personnel carriers into suitable tourist transport contraptions. The drivers, however, must still contend with retired navigation instruments like large dials, spastic speedometers and protruding gears...
...always use handicap access elevators, buttons and conveniences. Or, just buy a Rascal motor-scooter for Yard transport...
...Fogg and the Sackler through a double tunnel underneath Broadway. The aim of the tunnel, according to the architect Renzo Piano, is many-fold: to relieve pedestrian congestion at the intersection of Broadway and Quincy, to unify visitors' experiences of the museums, and to allow the University to transport artwork more safely between the Fogg and the Sackler...