Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SUBSIDY PROBE will reexamine mail payments to Pan American World Airways as far back as 1946. CAB says its general investigation of company (TIME, March 18) showed that "for the 1946-53 period alone Pan American's expense, underwritten with subsidy, may have been overstated by as much as $6,500,000." Agency also is pressing Pan Am to refund its $5,936,000 subsidy for Pacific operations...
...nonscheduled airlines* that sprang up after World War II, none was a bigger hit with the traveling public-or more trouble to CAB-than Trans American Airlines. Put together by a former Navy lieutenant commander, an ex-Air Corps transport pilot, and two former Douglas Aircraft employees, the Trans American group of companies started cheap fares, forced scheduled airlines to cut-rate coach fares. Trans American built up a $16 million annual business. All told, it has carried more than 1,250,000 passengers without an accident. But it broke CAB's regulations by shuffling planes about among five...
CONTINENTAL AIR LINES is asking CAB to end its $1,000,000 annual subsidy. Line says it can operate without U.S. help as soon as it starts new Chicago-Los Angeles run (TIME, March 11). Said CAB official: "An unusual request...
INVESTIGATION of Pan American World Airways by CAB will check management and financial arrangements between Pan Am and businesses in which it holds interests, such as Intercontinental Hotels Corp., Bogotá Airport, Middle East Real Estate Co. Confidential audit of Pan Am books by CAB raised question whether airline's subsidy should not be cut in view of profits from businesses and affiliated airlines in Latin America...
Chew-Chew. In Fresno, Calif., when the San Joaquin Daylight train arrived 18 minutes late, Southern Pacific officials blamed "unforeseen operating difficulties" for the delay-Engineer William J. Franey had sneezed, blown his upper dentures out the cab window, stopped the train to hunt for them...