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In the 1980s American Airlines executive Robert L. Crandall is credited with saving the company $40,000 a year by removing a single olive from each of the salads in first class.
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How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?
In June 1946 an airplane traveled from Rome to Paris, crossing over the Mediterranean Sea. There was nothing unusual about this flight except one thing: for 20 minutes of the plane’s journey, one of its passengers became its pilot. The passenger was Dr. Helen Keller, an American author, educator,
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