Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system, now being tested. Each signal box would have an infra-red generator; when its danger signal was up, a box would pour a constant beam of rays down the track. An approaching train would pick up the bad news on a photoelectric cell in the driver's cab...
This week, with CAB permission, the domestic airlines finally clamped down on no-shows. From now on, passengers who fail to cancel their reservations before flight time, unless the flight is canceled by the airline itself, will be charged 25% of the fare when they apply for a refund on the unused ticket...
...seemed to be no logical explanation for the crash, The plane's flight from New York to Newfoundland had been without incident. There had been a delay at Harmon, but for purely routine reasons. Weather had shut it out of Gander Airport, where a relief crew waited, and CAB rules had kept the plane grounded for twelve hours while its pilots slept. An engine check, made during the delay, revealed that all its power plants were functioning perfectly...
...year for each. No one seems to know exactly how V.E. benefits from such friendly gestures. In fact, V.E.'s friends at court do not seem to have been able to keep him from being handled, occasionally, as roughly as the N.A.M. Example: last spring CAB forced him to reduce AVCO's 20% interest in American Airlines to 4% under its rule that no company can operate airlines and also build planes...
...touch & go to keep ATCO breathing. One example: AMCO ran short of cash to keep its subsidiaries operating, so it borrowed $1,400,000 from AVCO. AVCO, in turn, ran short, so it borrowed $500,000 from ATCO. ATCO then sold its interest in Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., and later some new stock and was then able to help out AVCO, which was then better able to help AMCO...