Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common men as much alike as possible in pay and social position the world over, the Times chose not-so-common railroad engineers ("theoretically, they see life from the same level-the locomotive-cab window," were above average in pay, but average in viewpoint). The answers filled 16 columns, added up "generally on the melancholy side, with only a faint edging of hope." Excerpts...
...Times summed up: "[The Swede's] $37.50 a week . . . even enables him to keep his 16-year-old son in college. The French engineer earns good pay, but black markets keep decent rations, shoes and clothing out of his grasp.. . . The man in the cab in India, on $39 a month, never sees fruit for his family, rarely gets meat. The veteran engineer in London still struggles for comfort. Good food is hard to get, clothing too high-priced for him.. . . Only in Stockholm and New York does the engineer know true comfort...
...this time it looked as if Howard Hughes might have pulled one monkey-shine too many. A lot of people in & out of T.W.A. were getting fed up. One was CAB Chairman James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend T.W.A. $60,000,000. But RFC was smarter than it had been when it sank $19½ million into Hughes's 750-passenger "Hercules." With the "Hercules" some two years be hind schedule, RFC's faith in Hughes was dwindling...
...Manhattan cab driver and a Chicago barber each heard the knock of opportunity; but only one responded...
Then, on April 20, 1945, a holdup man got into Reddish's cab, shoved a gun in his face. Reddish resisted, helped capture the gunman. For that Toronto's police commissioners gave him a silver tray inscribed: "For his courageous action . . . alertness and ingenuity...