Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locomotive Engineer Luigi Cremonini, who flies from Rome to Milan, is an art-minded man, and his fellow workers call him "the Professor." During station stops he makes a habit of sketching in his cab. When his son was born 28 years ago, Luigi Cremonini hopefully named the boy Leonardo Raffaello. Father and son spent days off together painting by the green-scummed Navile Canal, which connects their native city of Bologna...
After six months of study, the CAB last week unanimously approved the merger of the nation's two biggest all-freight air carriers, Flying Tiger Line and Slick Airways. Despite loud protests of other airlines. CAB said that the merger would not "result in a-monopoly or ... jeopardize other air carriers...
...England until the mid-19th century, when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant era was handsome, well-born Father Bernard Vaughan, whose sermons packed such dramatic punch that professional actors...
...American World Airways will start regular tourist flights from the Midwest to Europe next year with biweekly service from Chicago and Detroit to London, weekly flights from the two cities to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hamburg. Pan American has had CAB permission for such flights for years, but only now thinks there is enough traffic to make regular service profitable...
...time when three men, with whom they had recently been talking, followed Hugens and jumped him unexpectedly while Durham walked on a few paces ahead. Durham immediately ran into the middle of the street looking for help. He eluded the men as they chased him and stopped the first cab he found...