Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CAB's figures came as timely support for the new air traffic plan drafted by Presidential Adviser Edward P. Curtis, vice president of Eastman Kodak Co. and former Air Force major general. The Curtis report calls for an all-weather, 24-hour control of all planes above a certain altitude, which would, in effect, control every commercial plane. To get the program started, the Administration last month sent to Congress the Curtis proposal for a three-man Airways Modernization Board composed of an impartial chairman and representatives of the Defense and Commerce departments. The technology and much...
TRANS AMERICAN AIRLINES, biggest U.S. nonscheduled carrier (TIME, April 1), will go out of business June 5. U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn CAB order revoking line's charter because it operated virtually as scheduled line without a franchise...
FIRST MEXICO AIR ROUTE for U.S. line nonstop from New York and Washington to Mexico City is expected to go to Pan American World Airways. CAB is almost certain to accept its examiner's recommendation against Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines for route worth $10 million in ticket sales yearly. Nonstop trip now is made only by Air France...
...SUBSIDY will soon be ended for Pan American World Airways. Because Pan Am is earning at least 7% return on mail pay and passenger revenues (commercial traffic rose by 25% in 1956), CAB will cut fiscal 1957 subsidy to $2,500,000 from planned $7,663,000, eliminate expected 1958 grant...
...importance. He is a minusculist, with a passion for the little ideas and the Little People-apparently not so much because they are people as because they are little. But for all that, Author Chayefsky has a metropolitan instinct as keen as a pigeon's, and an old cab driver's mystical sense of the city's meaning...