Word: cab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dayton?" calls a driver from the cab of his camper. His buddy pauses before slamming shut the tailgate of his trailer. "Nope," he drawls. "I'm gonna take a breather. See you in Memphis...
...CAB decision was welcomed by the U.S. transatlantic carriers, Pan American, TWA and National, which contend that they cannot match the fares proposed by the subsidized European lines. But the Europeans may retaliate by rejecting the Americans' proposal to charge $230 in the off season and $299 during June, July and August for the same service. So unless some compromise is found, the deadlock could lead to a continuation of present fares (minimum price: $313 round trip for 22 to 45 days in peak season, with no advance reservation) or even a rate war after the current international agreement...
Barnes also has his eyes on other skies. Allegheny has applied to the CAB for routes to Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta. If he can get routes to Atlanta from Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati, Barnes pledges to forgo Allegheny's annual federal subsidy. In return for flying into such small cities as Danville, Ill., and Johnstown, Pa., where traffic does not otherwise support commercial service, Allegheny collected $3,200,000 from the CAB last year...
Barnes' promise to give up the subsidy will be an incentive for the CAB to award Allegheny the Atlanta routes, but other airlines may oppose the move _ particularly Delta, which is based in Atlanta. If Barnes wins he pledges that on Jan. 1, 1975, his line will "request formal designation as a trunk carrier" -the first line to gain that distinction since Trans-Caribbean Airways was so designated...
...second of the Boston area's "hitchhike murders" occurred less than two weeks after Ellen Reich's body was discovered. Sandra Ehramjian was a 21-year-old college dropout who was working as a cab driver and living in a seedy flat near Harvard Square. On Monday, December 27, Ehramjian, according to her ex-roommate, started to hitchhike home to see her parents in East Meadow, N.Y. The next day her body was found in a Brockton park...