Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ponderous, unnamed 280-mm. gun (17 miles), carried by a two-cab hook-and-ladder-style truck, which lofts a 605-Ib. shell with high accuracy. A stopgap weapon that first appeared in 1953, it is so cumbersome that it is used for little else than military parades...
...claims a peak audience of about 165,000 viewers (Manhattan's lone educational channel can boast only some 65,000 viewers during prime time). Who watches? "Mostly housewives," claims a channel spokesman, who are presumed to be waiting up for husbands who are policemen, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, cab drivers-or late, late, late...
Bitter Complaints. The trouble started six weeks ago when the CAB refused to okay a fare increase that had already been approved by the International Air Transport Association, the all-powerful airline trade group whose 90 member airlines set standard fares the world over. Since I.A.T.A. had approved the fare hike back in October and the CAB rejected it only two weeks before it was to go into effect, other members were understandably shocked and angered by the lateness of the CAB action. Foreign carriers complained bitterly that they had already printed new tickets, sent out new promotional brochures...
...Murphy, approached by a New York Mirror reporter as he left a cab by his home, blew up: "Good God! What is wrong with you people? Let me alone! I will not say a word to any newspapermen. Go see Mrs. Murphy...
...Negro cab driver in Monroe told me last spring that things were so bad in Monroe that he was just waiting for the federal government to step in and clean things up. Well, he's still waiting. Federal intervention in the Mississippi "black belt" will come only when the Negroes begin to shoot back. The intervention will be in the form of disarming the Negroes. What else can we expect? The FBI could not even get a conviction of the known lynchers of Mack Parker or the murderer of Rev. Lee. Even though we are told we have a "liberal...