Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen minutes later, however, three cab drivers were munching catchupted scramblings in blissful ignorance of legislative dicta. The college men had left disconsolately sharing one unsugared doughnut...
...rates to 12¾? in August. The scheduled airlines, getting big new planes, were able for the first time to meet this cut by shifting their displaced DC-4s to air freight. (American alone was transferring six DC-4s.) The independents' best hope was that CAB would disallow the new rates, but it was hardly likely that it would not allow some cuts. The future looked dark for the independents...
Helicopter Cab. The Yellow Cab Co. of Cleveland got the first franchise for a regular scheduled helicopter taxi service. (Several charter taxi services are already operating.) Yellow Cab's projected helicopter runs will be between Cleveland Municipal Airport, downtown Cleveland and two suburban areas...
...platform of Dugald station, a flag stop 14 miles east of Winnipeg, passengers from the Canadian National's crack transcontinental No. 4 stretched their legs. A bright moon shone on stocks of wheat in nearby fields. In eastbound No. 4's cab, Engineer J. R. Gibson was impatient to get going, for he was behind schedule. But he had to wait for a westbound special. It was 10:45 p.m., near the end of a peaceful Labor...
...down payment of $1,000,000 which United had made in the form of a loan. He also applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a loan of $4,500,000 to pay off old debts and buy new equipment got a tentative O.K. on the condition that CAB approve his proposed sale. But since then the sale had hung fire. Drinkwater heard that CAB Chairman James M. Landis viewed it with disfavor. Landis, in fact, continued to view it thus, and was the only dissenter to last week's decision...