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...were other passengers that Conductor Beb might have been interested in. At Eger, Truksa's wife got on. He pretended not to know her. At other stops along the line, more people boarded the train, including the wife and children of Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka, up ahead in the cab. Some of the new passengers seemed nervous. Two or three sat down in Truksa's compartment, others near by. A few, as if by accident, sat down near the hand brakes...
...waters of the Hudson River, opposite Yonkers, where he would be outside the scope of big-city police, but still inside the orbit of big-city photographers. His brushes with officialdom had delayed matters ten days past his actual anniversary, but one day last week he climbed into a cab and rode to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport. When he got out, the driver demanded his $8 fare. Macfadden, who had no cash in his jeans, told him to collect later. His airplane pilot also demanded cash, on the ground that after the parachute jump, Macfadden might...
...will reduce their airmail pay from an average 63? a ton-mile to 45?, will order them to refund some $5,000,000 on airmail overpayments dating back to 1947. The airlines were doing so well they raised not a single squawk. With the new 45? rate which CAB proposes as the actual cost-plus-reasonable-profit of carrying the mail, the Big Four will reach a historic milestone: for the first time, all were officially free of any Government subsidy...
...eight months, they tailed him across the country as he made his contacts, waiting patiently for him to carry some of the junk himself. One night last week, Waxey took a cab to a dark corner of Manhattan, furtively grabbed a newspaper-wrapped bundle from a man in another car. The cops and the feds swooped down, caught the terrified Waxey with a pound of heroin (worth $200,000). Waxey's accomplice pleaded: "Please, if you've got a heart don't lock Waxey up. I'll pay you anything. This'll kill him." Waxey...
Summer students have gobbled up the odd jobs, whereas regular College students have seized most of the openings listed in the book labeled: "Full-time and Regular Part-time--Catch As Catch Can." The office has assigned drivers to the Checker Cab Company, bartenders to the Hotel Commander, and a man "to sleep on a boat...