Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Carter yesterday named Alfred E. Kahn, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), to head his new anti-inflation program...
...year-old Kahn will immediately become chairman of the Cabinet-level Council on Wage and Price Stability, leaving his CAB post, where he led the fight to deregulate air fares...
Chief Tonis learned about the tunnels the hard way. Back in 1939. Tonis was an FBI agent assigned to tail a certain German spy in the U.S. Upon arriving in South Station, the suspect checked in at a Boston hotel and took a cab to Harvard, where he entered one of the River Houses. In the evening, he returned to his hotel. The next day he repeated his visit to Cambridge, entering the same House. But he never came...
...airlines' Washington overseers are persuaded that for all the grumbling about crowded airports and planes, the industry can handle more traffic. And some CAB officials talk as if discovering how much inconvenience passengers are willing to stand is what deregulation is all about. Says Michael Levine, the CAB'S director of prices: "The airlines are now free to find out what people want. The bottom range of air travel has not yet been explored." To which one airline executive replies: "There are only so many ways you can pack sardines...
After struggling for a while in full pack, I got a cab--all right, it's a bourgeois thing to do, especially when you are trying to be a road person, but I was tried, and the cabbie told me it wouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars. Uh huh. He took me for seven bucks, but I stiffed him on the tip; that should teach him to take advantage of green, Eastern kids...