Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HIGHER AIR FARES seem certain after CAB ends its general passenger-fare investigation. CAB staff, which turned down seven domestic carriers' applications for an interim 6% fare increase, now recommends that instead of 8% on their money, trunk lines should be allowed to earn a 9% profit, regional carriers...
...story at first seems to be a French Alice in Wonderland, but soon ties some reality to the originally puzzling circumstances. A young milliner finds herself on a Brittany estate where an ice cream man sell no ice cream, a cab driver keeps rabbits in his ivy-grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton...
...audience relies on Petersen's magazines each month for soup-it-yourself advice, advance reports on the new cars, and styling tips for faddists who keep their autos a la mode with rear-seat TV, stain-pearl paint made of crushed fish scales, "chopped tops" (i.e., lowering the cab) and taillight kits that make a 1952 Ford as finny as a '57 Plymouth...
...late 1958 v. mid-1959). But Douglas will try a new angle to catch up. Instead of test-flying one plane, as Boeing has, Douglas will send up first eight or nine DC-8s for 60 hours or more each, thus hopes to accumulate enough flight time to get CAB certification quickly...
...Fare. In Detroit, Cabby Roscoe Damron, 60, heard his passenger mumble "something about having no money," pulled up to a police station, went in to fetch help, returned to find no cab...