Word: cabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the Tell City crash was caused by air turbulence and metal fatigue was a likely starting theory, but so was another one-that of another bomb explosion like the one that brought down a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina ten weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 18). Said CAB Safety Investigation Chief Philip Goldstein at week's end: "The structure was subjected to forces greater than it was designed for. We have definite evidence of a wing failure. Why this wing failure, I don't know...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week confirmed that the fatal crash of a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18) was caused by sabotage. Reported CAB Chairman James Durfee: "We have found evidence that a dynamite explosion, initiated by a dry-cell battery, occurred within the aircraft cabin in the vicinity of the seat occupied by Julian Frank." Manhattan Lawyer Frank, deeply in debt, had insured his life for more than...
...RATE AIRMAIL will be carried by airlines on a non-priority basis, if CAB approves. Airlines offered to carry first-class surface mail by air for half the regular airmail rate. CAB is expected to set rates close to those offered by airlines...
...Cab Galloway. 54. He was promoted without a raise in pay, and his boss said: "He has earned the job. We need a good man right away to do it." a) Thomas Gates...
Married. Antenor Patino, 65, Bolivian tin tycoon, one of the world's richest men, who chased (1954) his daughter to Edinburgh, spread money at all levels, from cab drivers to lawyers, in a celebrated but futile effort to prevent her marrying Londoner Michael Goldsmith; and Italian Countess Beatriz di Rovasenda, 47; both for the second time; in London...