Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told to go down to the street and wait for the cab. Ten minutes later I rode to Stillman and paid the fare, which doesn't come out of the $15 infirmary fee. I went in and gave the receptionist some forms, and she gave me some forms. Upstairs, I got undressed, filled out a form, and went to bed, and a nurse took my temperature...
...Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed. And taxicabs! Why should you crawl into a cab on your hands & knees and then be unable to get out of the deep seats once you get into them? Subways are dirty, noisy, unattractive. The American soda fountain is disgraceful ; anyone who has ever smelled the midsummer-night stink of a sloppy soda fountain−decayed hamburger, sour milk, mustard and vanilla−can never forget it. The same goes for a telephone booth. Must one be crowded into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into...
...complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the new laws as much as any one else...
...hoopla was an obvious attempt to highlight the austere handling Eastern gives its passengers, President Baker feels that it is also symbolic of the comeback of his airline. With his labor troubles settled, he has pulled his operating costs per revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but according to CAB, they're still above Eastern. Although National wound up fiscal 1949 last June with a piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation of continued profits...
National is still a long way from a happy landing. But Baker hopes that by the time CAB gets around to final hearings on dissolving National, probably not until next year, National's comeback will have made the question academic...