Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turboprop wing engines, the giant ship should be able to lift weights up to 90 tons-more than twice as much as any existing helicopter. Spinning slowly (8.6 r.p.m.), it will cruise cross-country at a speed of 47 m.p.h. with its crew sitting in a nonrotating cab suspended beneath the sphere...
...same edgy excitement and slight disorientation that a suburban householder feels upon entering wild country. It is a delicately calculated trick, but it works. Easy slashes of cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl in a patent-leather suit, hooked lightly through the lip, so we released her. On the next three casts, we added a spade pimp, an elevator inspector...
...Terrail's Tour, the menu is not all that commands attention. As Sacha Guitry, the French playwright, observed, "You go to La Tour d'Argent to dine. Once there, you look" at the scene. Shirley Temple Black, unable to flag a cab on a rainy day, was conveyed to the restaurant by gallant gendarmes in a Black Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says...
...which carries 48% of America's international air traffic, received its last subsidy in 1958, a payment of some $200,000 for Latin American operations. Predicting a $374 million fuel bill for 1974 ($204 million over the 1973 total), Chief Executive William Sea well last week asked the CAB for a $194 million annual subsidy. Seawell, who last year piloted his fleet into the profit column for the first time in five years, told the CAB: "We were overwhelmed in our efforts to stay in the black." TWA, which unlike Pan Am has a far-flung network of domestic...
...lines, along with Alitalia, have been considering a pooling of equipment and passengers on international flights. Pan Am applied last month for permission to discuss such an arrangement, and the CAB approved it last week. But the Justice Department formally objected on antitrust grounds; the subsidy applications promptly followed. CAB Chairman Robert Timm has expressed public support for the idea of federal financial assistance to U.S. international airlines to help them pay for excessive fuel costs, and legislation is pending in Congress to provide exactly that assistance. The only alternative appears to be outright nationalization...