Remembering 'Europe on 5 Dollars a Day' (AP via Yahoo! News) Arthur Frommer first saw Europe in 1953 from the window of a military transport plane.He'd been drafted and was headed to a U.S. base in Germany....more...Allegiant Travel Company Reports First Quarter 2007 Financial Results (FinanzNachrichten) Unaudited 1Q07 1Q06 Change Total operating revenues (millions) $84.3 $59.6 41.4% Operating income (millions) $14.3 $7.4 92.8% Operating margin 17.0% 12.4% 4.6pp Net income (millions) $9.7 $6.8 42.6% Diluted earnings per share $0.48 $0.41 17.1% Scheduled Service: Ancillary revenue per passenger $18.98 $12.47 52.2% Total revenue per ASM (cents) 9.13 7.96 14.7% Total System*: Operating expense per ......more... "Free" Vacation? Hardly. (The Motley Fool) Spot the pricey getaway "gotchas" before you take the bait. ...more... Rotary Club to host Vegas fun (The Reporter) The community is invited to join the Vacaville Rotary Club for an evening of fellowship, food and the kind of entertainment not normally found west of Las Vegas....more... Remembering 'Europe on 5 Dollars a Day' (AP via Yahoo! News) Arthur Frommer first saw Europe in 1953 from the window of a military transport plane....more... Home Equity Debt: The Long Slow Squeeze Continues (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) Tim Iacono submits: One of the many lingering after effects of the Greenspan term at the Fed is that huge amount of home equity that has been extracted but not yet paid back by homeowners with no intention of selling their home....more... Boyd Gaming Corp. earnings remain steady (Honolulu Advertiser) Boyd Gaming Corp. reported first-quarter revenue fell slightly at its Las Vegas properties that are popular with Hawai'i residents, though the segment outperformed the market....more... The memory maker (Tacoma News Tribune) Kyle Smith was born at the end of the First World War and formed by the Second. A soldier with a camera working with the United Service Organizations, he smoothed the rocky paths of Europe for visiting movie stars, and in a shirt pocket he still carries wartime photographs of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich. ? Audio slideshow: Smith-Western Co. turns 60 ...more... The memory maker (Tacoma News Tribune) Kyle Smith was born at the end of the First World War and formed by the Second. A soldier with a camera working with the United Service Organizations, he smoothed the rocky paths of Europe for visiting movie stars, and in a shirt pocket he still carries wartime photographs of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich....more... |