Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benny Goodman plays occasional weekend dates, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey have combined their bands, Artie Shaw is out of the music business, Cab Galloway is appearing as a solo singing act. Such sweet-music bandleaders as Guy Lombardo and Sammy Kaye, however, are still going strong...
...very grateful to Kefauver for his "gracious, spontaneous expression of support." He thought Kefauver was only one among "many qualified candidates for Vice President." It was a long way from an endorsement of anybody-arithmetic or no. In fact, it was something like a friendly wave from the cab as the engineer rolls along the iron without even having to look at his pocket watch to see what time...
...kids battling for a prize. They were in fact battling for a prize, the New York-to-Miami run, estimated to be worth up to $5.5 million annually to the line that gets it. The run has long been the possession of Eastern and National. Last April, a CAB examiner recommended that in the "public interest" a third carrier (he recommended Delta) be added. There is no doubt that a third carrier is badly needed; even in the offseason, as at present, travelers must often wait two or three days to get seats...
Last week, as CAB opened hearings on the recommendation, platoons of politicians pleaded with the CAB for the line that had promised most to the local folk. Maine's Senator Frederick Payne, representing the dozen New England Senators, spoke for his area's Northeast Airlines; New York championed Pan American World Airways; so did Maryland's Senator J. Glenn Beall. since Pan Am has promised to revive Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, if certified. Florida's ex-Governor Fuller Warren "begged for five minutes." spoke ten, predicted that "hundreds of Eastern's Miami employees...
...subsidy could be cut $8,000,000 if it got the route. Eastern and National charged Pan Am with carrying on a "tremendous lobbying campaign," using its officers, from President Juan Trippe on down, to pressure Government officials into making "informal and off-the-record" approaches to the CAB on Pan Am's behalf. They denounced Pan Am's "misrepresentations" to Baltimore and Boston about what it would do for those cities if it got the route, insisted that Pan Am has no equipment "immediately available" for the Boston-Miami run. Turning on Northeast, National and Eastern alleged...