Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's union cab drivers struck yesterday in a city-wide dispute that emptied the streets of most of the city's 11,510 taxicabs, and the city's entire police force was put under "gravest emergency" orders. Although some drivers defied pickets there were no reports of any passengers being molested. The striking union called the walkout in a bid to win recognition as bargaining agent for the cab firms' drivers, mechanics, and other employees...
...tanks skidded and rolled over, wheels up and spinning. In the cab, still upright beneath a snapped power-line pole, Billy Cox was pinned in his seat...
...poured water on the tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
...last a bulldozer appeared, rescuers ran cables to the cab, and the dozer dragged it clear of the flames. In a Martinez hospital last week, Billy Cox grinned weakly and without his usual cockiness. Said Billy: "I lay there and all I could think was, 'What...
...Dealing James M. Landis, ex-chairman of CAB and of SEC, who has had many dealings with Trippe, says: "Juan Trippe is thinking about the next decade ... If anybody ever flies to the moon, the very next day Trippe will ask CAB to authorize regular service...