Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing: $39.60 belonging to Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece, now visiting Manhattan for the first time. Clarissa looked at the meter in a cab, saw the figure 40, handed $40 to the driver, who softly thanked her and quickly drove away...
Rate Peace. CAB called a halt to the rate war between scheduled and independent air freight carriers (TIME, Oct. 6). It set a new minimum rate of 16? a ton mile for the first 1,000 miles, 13? thereafter. CAB thought that lower rates "would endanger the sound development of the air freight industry...
Happy Landing. James M. Landis, ex-CAB chairman, was elected a director of Colonial Airlines. It was his first re-entry into the aviation industry since he left his CAB job (TIME...
Raise Granted. The Civil Aeronautics Board granted a 35% mail-rate boost to five major domestic airlines-American, Eastern, Northwest, T.W.A., and United. For all but American the boost was retroactive to Jan. 1. American had not asked for a boost, let alone a retroactive one, but CAB decided it should have the increase anyway. The new rate schedule would give the lines another $5,271,000 in revenue this year...
Nevertheless, the Senate is expected to confirm him, so that headless CAB can get to work again. Last week the Senate confirmed Harold A. Jones, 50, Los Angeles lawyer and World War I Marine pilot, thus filling the other vacancy on the five-man board...