Word: cabman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matter of Economics. To the astonishment of many aviation experts, the CAB chose to pass over past safety and maintenance violations to concentrate on economic questions. The theory, as outlined by one CABman, sounded like a textbook social worker's solution to juvenile delinquency: the nonskeds' financial hardships have spawned slipshod maintenance practices. So the CAB was looking for signs of financial health and was content to take FAA's word that the applicants satisfied safety requirements. But such assurances from the FAA are hardly reassuring; it had said before their disastrous crashes that Imperial and President...