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...porter carrying his bags from the ship asked: "Are you the 1,000,000th?" Ranezay nodded, and the porter set down his bags. "I got to shake your hand," he said. The cab driver who drove them to St. Patrick's Cathedral declared proudly: "I'm going to put a sign in the back that the i, 000,000th rode here." At St. Patrick's, the Ranezays knelt and gave thanks...
...American World Airways, which has been battling for cut-rate transatlantic tourist fares for more than three years, last week won a notable victory. Trans World Airlines, British Overseas Airways Corp., Air France and the CAB all announced their support of tourist rates beginning next spring. But there was no final agreement on the rates. Pan Am wants to cut the present $395 one-way fare to $225, with a $405 round-trip rate. The other airlines and the CAB want a $265 one-way fare and $477 roundtrip. The proposed rates would also cut 25% from the round-trip...
...ever uncovered in Sweden" had spurred others to activity, in the only large nation in Europe which officially refuses to choose between East & West. Sweden's legislators were hastily shoving through a new law to make wire tapping easier. "The only thing that puzzles me," said a Stockholm cab driver, "is how could a simple navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets. Also, why were his Red sympathies ignored for 24 years...
...Franzensbad, Truksa got out to stretch his legs on the platform. At the same time Engineer Konvalinka got down from his cab and slipped between the tender and the baggage car, shutting off the airbrake line (this meant that no one would be able to stop the train by pulling the emergency brake). As Konvalinka got back into his cab and started the train, Truksa followed him into the cab. He whipped out his pistol and trained it on the fireman, a Communist, and ordered him to lie face down on the floor...
...golden '20s, no one seemed to have a more golden touch than a young man named Errett Lobban Cord. By the time he was 39, the ex-Los Angeles used-car salesman had built an empire that ranged through motors (Auburn, Checker Cab, Cord), ships (New York Shipbuilding), aircraft (Stinson, Lycoming engines) and airlines (American Airways). But in 1937, Cord came a cropper. The SEC charged him with manipulating the stock of Checker Cab and Auburn, and he sold most of his empire to a group headed by Banker Victor Emanuel...