Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Imogene Coca and Keenan Wynn in a comedy-melodrama, The Cab Driver...
...Louis. In Local 524 in Yakima, Wash., the teamsters did just that, stringing up an effigy of Beck and setting it afire with cigarette lighters. "Beck's been talking about us paying for his defense fund," growled a Seattle taxi driver. "We been hanging around the cab stands all day trying to figure out how to slip some dough to the prosecution." Said a truck driver in Portland, Ore.: "It's high time that somebody finds out what's happening to the $5.50 a month I shell out in dues." As Dave Beck headed back home...
...CAB's patience with this "flagrant" circumvention of the rules snapped, and Trans American was ordered out of business. The company went to court and in December 1956 was refused a rehearing by the Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, with an appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Trans American got ready to quit; it leased five DC-6Bs to Eastern Air Lines for $12.8 million for five years, plus the rights to two more planes now on order...
...West Coast shuttle service and on military contracts, plus one old stand-by DC-3. By leasing before the Supreme Court rules, the owners got more than if they waited and then had to make a forced sale. If the court refuses to send the case back to CAB for a new hearing, Trans American will have only 45 days to close up in 21 cities and lay off 750 employees...
...Airlines which have no franchise from the CAB to fly regular schedules on specified routes...