Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge cab drivers reported an exremely brisk business yesterday. At one point during the day the scarcity of cabs was so great that drivers were refusing to take passengers into Boston...
PACIFIC AIR CARRIERS will get no more competition on current routes. Eisenhower turned down CAB recommendation that Pan American and Northwest Orient get parallel routes with each other and with foreign flag lines between U.S. and Japan. Ike feared new routes might "adversely affect" foreign relations, also found that forecast of only 17 revenue passengers a day in five years made further competition uneconomical...
...subway or cab...
...Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: "I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about." He might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting. He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough. He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures. He gathered one of the biggest collections of Paul Klees in the world. All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw...
...dirt for his report, Landis was unsuccessfully trying to land a job as president of the Air Line Pilots Association with the argument that, while he had never been a pilot, he had been chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and could represent the association's interests at CAB better than anybody else...