Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwest, Braniff International Airways and Mid-Continent Airlines seemed made for each other. They both tapped different territories, had no competing routes, and fed passengers to each other. Last week, with the blessing of CAB and stockholders of both lines, they merged. The new line will be known as Braniff. Mid-Continent's stockholders will trade 1½ shares of their stock for one share of Braniff's. The merger boosts Braniff's domestic routes from 4,831 miles to 10,234 (plus 7,599 miles of routes in Latin America), increases the number of its planes...
Senseless death struck in San Antonio, too. One Jerry George Adrian, 29, who had come to Texas from a New York mental hospital, got into a cab. After a few blocks he fired five shots into the back of Driver Leo Rios. "God told me to do it," he told the police. "I heard voices. I fought the impulse, but the voice said now or never...
Collectors' Note: Okeh has reissued some famous oldtimers: I'm Confessin' (Louis Armstrong); Willow Weep for Me (Cab Galloway); Wiggle Woogie (Count Basic); Gimme a Pigfoot (Bessie Smith...
...CAB gave Seaboard permission to make 72 flights a month to Europe, Asia and the Middle East on a temporary basis, provided that it carries at least 40% Government cargo on its outbound trips. Thus, Seaboard will be able to set up regular flights, get the benefits of scheduled service. CAB, which once turned down Seaboard's application for permanent scheduled Atlantic routes, also agreed to reconsider the application...
...Seaboard, vainly seeking a certificate since 1947, the victory was moral as well as financial. It came as a direct recommendation from President Truman, who is interested in building up transoceanic cargo carriers for use in case of war. To this influential voice, Seaboard itself added some strong arguments. CAB's own figures, said Seaboard, showed that Pan American and T.W.A. together had flown only nine scheduled all-cargo flights last year while foreign airlines took the big share of the U.S. air cargo business with 339 flights. Furthermore, the U.S. lines' share of the cargo business dropped...