Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) officials assembled there spent most of their time patiently dissuading everyone from city mayors to cab company presidents from putting more cars on the snow-strewn streets...
...booze isn't bootleg any more, but the Cotton Club is as jazzy as ever. Harlem's celebrated nightspot, which closed in the 1940s, reopened its doors last week. Cavorting together in the new digs were Duke Ellington's granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington and Cab Calloway, 70, who used to Hi-dee-ho at the club in the '30s. "Just another gig," shrugged Calloway, who does about 150 a year and has just recorded a disco version of his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher. "I live good. I don't indulge in anything other than...
...President made two key alterations in the CAB proposal. The board had recommended that National be allowed to fly only to Paris; the President added Amsterdam and Frankfurt. More important, the CAB had decided by a 4-to-1 vote that Pan Am be chosen to open service on the potentially lucrative route from Dallas-Fort Worth to London. Its reason: Pan Am, which only in the past two years has begun to earn a profit after years of heavy losses that at one point drove it to the brink of bankruptcy, could not stand any more competition. Carter gave...
...When CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn heard the news by phone in a doctor's office, he considered quitting on the spot, but thought it over for 24 hours and decided to stay. Pan Am was less charitable. Stormed William Seawell, the airline's chairman and chief executive: "We are outraged." The White House order, he said, "appears to have been dictated by the kind of political manipulation the President promised would not characterize his Administration...
...Dolph Briscoe, "and possibly even from one high-ranking member of the Administration who is a former Braniff director." The reference was to Robert Strauss, who was Democratic National Chairman when Carter was nominated for President and is now Carter's chief trade negotiator. Pan Am asked the CAB either to stay the new route awards for 90 days or grant the routes only on a temporary basis. To no avail; last week the CAB staff was readying a final order for Carter's signature when he returned from his foreign trip...