Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order to Suspend. CAB, which has let the wildcats pretty much alone, knows that the flying public likes bargain fares. It also knows that popular opinion favors competition. But CAB's mandate is to develop "a stable air transport system," and CAB knows that where the scheduled lines have to make their regular flights full or empty, and maintain many a money-losing run for "public necessity," the irregulars wait for full planeloads and raid only heavy-money runs...
Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...
Before the gendarmes arrived, Stravinsky scrambled out a backstage window. At 2 in the morning he piled into a cab with Nijinsky, Diaghilev and his friend Jean Cocteau, and drove through the Bois de Boulogne. Cocteau remembers: "We were silent; the night was cool and clear. The odor of the acacias told us we had reached the first trees. Coming to the lakes, Diaghilev, bundled up in opossum, began mumbling in Russian . . . tears running down [his] cheeks...
...tactics have made it one of the most consistent moneymakers among U.S. lines. It has been in the black all but one of the last 14 years, and last year earned $186,469 on a gross of $3,353,910. It is also one of the safest lines under CAB, having carried 1,300,000 passengers 200,000,000 miles without a fatality...
...exciting place for parades, block parties, silk hats, first nights, and baseball games. Some of its sidewalks sparkle (because of mica in the concrete). Its cab drivers, individualists all, deliver wild, cheerful or threatening monologues on world affairs. Its well-barbered women worship fashion; they shop like stalking tigresses, dress like lady spies and walk with a provocative...