Word: cab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to fly from Atlanta, its head quarters, to London; Miami-based National Airlines can add service from New Orleans and Tampa to its existing Miami-London route. Pan Am was told it could start flying nonstop Houston-London in about three years. In all these matters, Carter followed CAB recommendations...
...Gelbart employ three basic jokes throughout the movie; one, the "God as a funny-rumpled-schlemiel joke," where He talks about the '69 Mets as the last great miracle after the Red Sea; two, the "he'll pop up anywhere" routine, in which Burns will drive by in a cab, control all the stations on a car radio, or appear suddenly in a supermarket aisle (this type of thing has been used from Topper to Bewitched, and was employed to greater comic effect by a steel-jawed villain in this summer's repulsive Bond film, The Spy Who Loved...
Chairman Alfred Kahn, 60, a Cornell economist who was appointed by Carter in May, is one of the rare bureaucrats who is trying to put his agency at least partly out of business. Under him, the CAB has given the airlines more freedom to lower fares and expand charter flights. Kahn is impatient with bureaucratic obstructionism. He learned, for example, that a petition by the city of Columbus, Ohio, for more airline service had not been answered for eight years by the CAB. An aide recalls Kahn's mastication of the responsible bureaucrats: "He bit them so hard...
...pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand the big hotels. And Beach officials are trying to rectify the reputation of resort employees for surliness to tourists. The officials have held special sessions with cab drivers and hotel workers to coach them in etiquette, and passed out buttons to employees reading: BUTTER...
...Houston cab driver: "I never seen so many women in one place in my life. How come their husbands let them come...