Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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R.S.V.P. In Des Moines, Cab Driver William A. Roach hired a man to beat him up, was hauled off to a hospital, told police that "I thought my former wife would come here to see me," was informed that she couldn't make...
...Taft hammered at a money point: $65 billion of the $85 billion U.S. budget is going to the military. By the time he left town, the people were talking about that. "Sixty-five billion out of 85 billion is what Truman is giving the Army," said a Spokane cab driver. "My gawd...
...Faure well knew, France is on a gaudy whirl. Its cost of living, already high, has jumped 23% in the past year. Heat and light are up 42%. Last week the Paris Opera raised its prices 17% and Parisian cab fare jumped 20%. Ministers worried whether tourists would come to so expensive a country. The French themselves worried about the spreading gap between wages and prices...
Last week Airman Carmichael, now 44, took on a bigger job. After four years of dickering, he signed an agreement to merge Capital with Northwest Airlines and form the biggest (8,089 route miles) U.S. domestic airline system. It is the latest of a series of mergers,* now pending CAB action, designed to strengthen U.S. airlines. If the deal is approved, as expected, Carmichael will become president and operations boss of the new line. Northwest's President Croil Hunter, 58, will become board chairman...
Sirens screamed through the afternoon, and the last flames were still flickering when furious citizens began their protest. The airport must go. All week long, investigators swarmed over the scene-from Washington, from the New Jersey legislature, from the CAA, the CAB. But Elizabethans were not half so interested in causes of the crash as they were in the exasperating probability that the airport would operate as usual, at least for ten months. Then, if construction is complete, a new instrument runway will bring traffic in over the marshlands to the east...