Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a brief interlude of truce interrupted the battling. In 1946, CAB certified Braniff International Airways to fly into South America. Faced with the threat of this new competitor, Pan Am and Panagra joined forces to squeeze Braniff out. Pan Am refused to let Braniff use its airport facilities or communications systems; Panagra warned its personnel not to fraternize with Braniff employees, even bribed a junior official for copies of Braniff's passenger manifests...
...Merger? When Braniff's competition proved to be small, the truce ended. Grace once again tried to break Pan Am's strangle hold on Panagra's operations. Charging Pan Am "with every conceivable obstructionist tactic," Grace in 1951 petitioned CAB for a Miami tie-up between Panagra and National Airlines. In a bristling counterattack, Pan Am accused Grace of seeking the tie-up only because of its holdings of 174,000 shares of National stock...
...Angola, and began spluttering denials of the reports trickling out through the colonial censorship. From the capital city of Luanda came word that swarms of Africans hurled themselves against a police station and were methodically mowed down by automatic weapons in the hands of paratroops and police. A Luanda cab driver told reporters that he saw five trucks loaded with corpses driven out to a mass burial in the bush. The prison attacked in earlier rioting still "stank like a charnel house" even after being cleared of dead bodies, said one Angolan. While tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets...
...banker, a brother of retired University professor john J. Mahoney '03, was trapped in the wreckage of the cab and had to be removed by the Cambridge Rescue Squad. The accident disrupted MTA traffic north of the Square
...Polish cab drivers have a patron saint, but the dialectic and a Five-Year Plan prevent the Polish government from believing in a fairy godmother. Which is to say that, despite President Kennedy's hopes for increasing U.S. economic aid to Poland, there are few areas in which such aid would really help the Poles...