Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Henry, 51, president of Pacific Air Lines. Henry's arithmetic stems from the profits he anticipates from a merger of Pacific and two other regional, or feeder, airlines: Phoenix's Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. The system, after approval by stockholders and the CAB, will cover eight Western states...
...merger must be cleared by the Civil Aeronautics Board. That should be a snap. The CAB has long been anxious to dump the heavy Government subsidies ($54 million this year) needed to keep the feeders in the air. Henry & Co. promise to take an immediate 10% cut in their total $10 million a year handout, and expect to be carrying the full load in three to five years...
...Charlotte, N.C., Willis B. Howard, 32, a driver for the Yellow Cab Co., had just dropped off two men at a movie one night last June when the two-way radio in his cab blared out the police description of two escaped prisoners from nearby Union County penitentiary. The description tallied perfectly with his last fares. Howard grabbed his radio mike, called his dispatcher's office, which in turn alerted police. Within minutes, patrol cars rolled up and nabbed the escapees. Last week Howard won a $200 award for his good deed. Said Charlotte Police Chief John E. Ingersoll...
...Newark cab driver whose arrest last month on a traffic charge ignited a five-day riot there sued police for $700,000, claiming that they beat him with fists and nightsticks. Cabbie John Smith (TIME cover, July 21) filed suit against the two arresting officers and, for good measure, Police Director Dominick Spina and Chief Oliver Kelly, charging "they failed to properly train and supervise" the Newark force...
...judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped fist. "Corruption?" blurts an astonished cab driver. "He needs it for his family. And if I didn't give him 50 centavos once in a while, he wouldn't let me park near the intersection waiting for passengers. He gets something. I get something. How can you call that corruption...