Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the first, District 50's tactics were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab strike, when 5,000 enraged hackies ran wild through midtown Manhattan, overturning and busting up cabs, fighting cops and stoning non-strikers...
...work, but the foreign ministers also got some diplomatic hay in. The State Department's new building in Foggy Bottom, in an architectural style no longer Greek and not yet modern, bustled with their comings & goings. Inherited from the War Department in 1947, "New State," as the cab drivers called it, was little used to such pomp & circumstance. Its bare rooms held few memories; its stark corridors suggested no history. Even its name lacked the savor of Quai d'Orsay or Whitehall...
...citizenry was outraged. As one cab driver put it: "We know Rivera is our greatest painter, but he hurts our feelings...
...much does it cost U.S. taxpayers to subsidize U.S. airlines? Nobody knows for sure, but last week Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., chairman of CAB, told the New York City Bar Association that CAB soon hopes to find out. CAB expects to break down the Government payments to airlines into outright subsidies and the amount airlines have earned carrying the mail...
Before asking for revision of the act, CAB will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...