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Word: cab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilot Martin and Navigator Thompson were not in the least abashed by their testimony. In reply to the question of one exasperated CAB examiner, Martin replied coolly, "Well, I still think we did all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: We Did All Right | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Released on ball after an arrest in the University town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, several of the men fled to the home of the Presbyterian minister with two carloads of angry cab drivers behind them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tester of Supreme Court Ruling on Jim Crow Will Speak Here Tonight | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

...infinitely more animated as well as being better lit. . . . Its policemen, barely discernible as they patrolled the fog-bound streets, resembled our own; but . . . they never took their thumbs out of their belts, and the only traffic they were called on to regulate was an occasional hansom cab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: England, Their England | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...election campaign, and claims the smelt-eating championship of the U.S. Congress; and Mrs. Katharine K. Brown (no kin), vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, founder of Dayton's Junior League, member of the D.A.R. and Colonial Dames of America, and vice president of the Ohio Yellow Cab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Taft Declares | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Too Good | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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