Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four Teamster officials serving prison sentences. Furthermore, over a four-year period he approved a staggering $625,726 in legal fees for the defense of arrested Teamsters. ¶ A bitter 72-day Teamster strike in 1953 and 1954 against four Wichita, Kans. taxicab companies, marked by dynamitings and cab burnings, was settled finally when the Teamsters agreed to pay the cab companies $15,000 if they forced drivers to join the union...
...Hoffa's hoodlum business agents, Gus Zapas, forced Attorney David Probstein out as president of an Indianapolis cab company. Asked Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy of Betty Starrett, a former secretary in Probstein's office: "What did Zapas say to Probstein at that time?" Replied Witness Starrett: "He said to get out-and he speaks very colorfully." Question: "Did Zapas say anything about killing him?" Answer: "Yes, but he used that expression like I would say 'Hello.' " After talking to Zapas, Probstein went to St. Louis on a "business trip." He has not been seen since...
...over a general passenger-fare investigation since the spring of 1956, is not scheduled to complete it until next March. "By that time," noted Quesada in a covering letter to the President, "the success or failure of major segments of the equipment program may well have been determined. The CAB must examine the carriers' proposals promptly...
While spanking CAB, the report also slapped the airlines. It questioned whether the carriers will be able to fill the additional 40 billion seat-miles that the speed and greater capacity of the new jets will make available by 1962. The report's conclusion: The airlines will not be able to unless they get busy right away researching new markets and developing special programs to attract new passengers. The Government can lend a hand in assisting traffic growth, said the report, by repealing the transportation tax and turning over to commercial carriers more of the passenger and cargo traffic...
Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...