Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through improved ticketing, baggage handling and other services, Heathrow should be able to cope with some 900 travelers every 15 minutes, according to the plans. To speed up the trip to the center of London, which now takes about 45 minutes and $10 in unmetered cab fare, British Rail is going to construct a line between Victoria Station and an underground stop at Heathrow. Without such a rail link, experts have predicted, the disembarking passengers from each of the new jets would create a traffic jam one mile long...
...breed of railroaders-management experts with wide-ranging interests. And they, in turn, have fueled the railroads' drive to diversify-if the Government eases up-into related areas of transportation. The Missouri Pacific, which already owns two truck lines extending 17,000 miles, last week applied to the CAB for permission to start an air-freight service. Says W. Graham Claytor Jr., new president of the Southern: "The railroads must press hard for the right to sell transportation, not railroad service. Then they must supply it in the most economical form suited to the customer's needs, including...
...mile for travelers who paid full fares. Moreover, discount fares are costly to administer; sometimes they cause serious delays in ticketing and boarding while counter clerks rifle through tariff books in search of a cheaper fare among, for example, the 48 possibilities from New York to San Francisco. CAB recently allowed the carriers a slight curtailment in use plus a few small increases in "Discover America" excursion fares, which offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip coach fares but require passengers to avoid peak traffic times. And the airlines hope that this week's resignation of CAB Chairman...
...Glass Cab. Momyer's operations are housed in three closely guarded, windowless buildings on the Tan Son Nhut airbase. He arrives at 7 a.m. every day to read the reports on the previous night's raids, then assembles his staff in his war conference room to plot the day's operations, using weather and intelligence reports and checking reconnaissance slides projected on an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. screen. He has authority on his own to strike at some 200 existing targets in North Viet Nam. When his intelligence turns up new ones he would like...
...Navy fighter-bombers floating on carriers in the South China Sea. To follow the course of the actual missions, Momyer moves to the plotting room for Operation Rolling Thunder (a twin room plots the tactical air strikes in South Viet Nam). There, sitting in a glass "cab" in the center, he is surrounded by 23 maps and charts that rise seven feet from the floor. Any area Momyer is interested in lights up when he presses on the glass face of the map. On each is charted in grease pencil the flight path of the attackers, any weather changes...