Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jigsaw Saga. At last, convinced that he was a phony, the university hospitals' doctors sent Lamphere packing with a bus ticket to Chicago, gave him money out of their own pockets for cab fare to the terminal. He never got there, but stayed drunk in a downtown hotel, was soon back at the hospital, coughing blood and fevered (103°), pleading for readmission. He won it. After a few days he went berserk, terrorized the ward, smashed furniture and equipment, gashed his thigh with scissors. After more such self-inflicted wounds, Lamphere was committed to a mental hospital...
PACIFIC ROUTE BATTLE between Northwest Airlines and Pan American has been won by Northwest. Pan Am wanted to fly to Tokyo from West Coast via Alaska, a monopoly "now held by Northwest. CAB turned down request, and White House concurred...
AIRLINE TRAFFIC flew out ahead of both railroads and bus lines in 1957 for first time in history, reports CAB. Box score: 25.8 billion passenger-miles for U.S. airlines v. 25.2 billion for intercity buses, 21.6 billion for railroads...
Last week this bureaucratic boondoggling angered the White House, which regards a commercial jet fleet as a transport reserve needed for national defense. It gave CAB a swift kick in the pants, told it, in effect, to give the lines immediate emergency relief. Promptly. CAB offered a 6.6% interim fare boost by a vote of three to two (Vice Chairman Chan Gurney voted against the boost on the ground that it should be 10%). If accepted, as expected, domestic trunklines will get a 4% raise, plus an additional $1 on each ticket, along with the hope that real relief will...
...down 55%. Deficits ranged from American's $1.9 million to Northwest's $247,000. The chief cause: while operating revenues rose 12% through November, expenses soared 17.9%. Nearly a year ago, when the airlines first began asking for an increase, they thought 6% would be enough. But CAB delayed so long that now some lines think they need as much...