Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cab driver turned around slowly. "You want to know the best pick-up spots in town," he intoned. "Well, I can take you to one down in South Boston. No, that woudn't be safe for a guy looks like you. Better try Harvard Yard...
...luggage as it was in the dark record of his labor career, thoroughly documented by committee research and previous witnesses. Items: ^ Far from abhorring violence, as Gibbons piously testified, he is pretty good as an engineer of violence-as the evidence clearly showed. During a St. Louis cab strike in 1953, he used a crew of enforcers that included a procurer, a stickup man, a pimp who put his own wife in a bawdyhouse, a Teamster arrested for shooting his mother...
COSTLIER AIR TRAVEL is in the wind. American Airlines, nation's biggest, has petitioned CAB to end first-class roundtrip discounts, reduce family-plan discounts from 50% to 33⅓% effective...
HOWARD HUGHES will sell his 10.2% interest in Atlas Corp. (market value: about $7,700,000) by May 31, 1961, until then will deposit stock with neutral trust or bank. CAB forced sale because Hughes owns 78.2% of Trans World Airlines and Atlas controls Northeast Airlines, thus giving him the opportunity to control two airlines...
...direction is accounted for and automatically computed to give precise distance traveled. The key instrument is an accelerometer -a container holding a weight that can move, against springs, toward one end or the other. The weight acts like a man's head that is jerked back because a cab driver starts suddenly. The weight thus measures a vehicle's thrust (acceleration), and from this information, an electronic computer can determine the vehicle's velocity. Inertial navigation uses two accelerometers, one to measure all north-south motion from the starting point, and one to measure all east-west...