Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Orders. Most Moslems went into hiding. But one Moslem truck driver, accelerating to get away, knocked down and killed a European woman. The mob dragged the driver out of his cab, beat him senseless. A soldier killed him with a long burst from his submachine gun. On the city's seafront boulevard the mob halted traffic, permitted European cars to pass, then spotted a red-capped Moslem atop a beer truck. Dragging him down, they battered him to death with beer bottles, were about to loot the truck when they discovered that the driver was French. Apologizing, they...
Another truck appeared with three Moslem occupants. Two escaped to safety behind a group of French parachutists observing the scene. The third, unable to get out of the driver's cab quickly enough, was battered to death...
...FARE CUT on North Atlantic is being pushed by CAB. Board turned down request by the International Air Transport Association to boost ticket prices by 5%, urged a drop in rates, which are now 70% above U.S. domestic air fares...
...ROUTES will be granted to more foreign airlines. State Department has tentatively decided to recommend that CAB permit Belgium s Sabena to fly beyond New York to San Francisco...
...administer a control system for the jet age, Curtis last week recommended that the Airways Modernization Board be succeeded eventually by an even larger civil-military Federal Aviation Agency, which would absorb CAA and part of CAB. Empowered to police every inch of airspace, the new agency would probably lead to a new Cabinet-level boss for U.S. aviation. Meanwhile, CAA is planning a six-year, $810 million program of buying new electronic control equipment. It also hopes to boost present personnel from 16,000 to 24,000 in the next three years, will extend its radio and radar control...