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...Cab drivers in the Square claim they can always spot Radcliffe girls "by the odd way the dress." Although the taxi drivers were vehement in their protests of Annex bicycle riding and tipping habits, discussions of 'Cliffedwellers' clothing styles brought forth the most moans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Cabbies Call 'Cliffedwellers 'Odd in Dress, Bike Riding, Tipping | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

Bicycle riding by Radcliffe girls drew shivers from cab drivers. "I left my cab for a minute the other day," one stated, 'and a Radcliffe girl crashed into it on her bike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Cabbies Call 'Cliffedwellers 'Odd in Dress, Bike Riding, Tipping | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...skeds' best argument against CAB is the fact that they fathered low passenger rates, thus converted thousands to air travel and helped all airlines. (Bureau of the Census surveys showed that 75% of non-sked passengers would have traveled by bus, train or not at all if it hadn't been for aircoach.) In places like Alaska, non-skeds have helped bring a revolution in transportation. Says Alaska s Governor Ernest Gruening: "The Civil Aeronautics Board has been blind to our needs and deaf to our appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Death Edict? | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Order. Despite the boost the non-skeds have given flying, CAB feels the lines cannot be allowed to violate the law by flying as regularly as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Death Edict? | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Senate Small Business Committee the CAB order has all the noose marks of a "death edict." CAB agreed this week to hold off its order for 30 days while the committee conducts a full investigation. Said Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, committee chairman: "It would appear outrageous to have . . . Government decree [the non-skeds] out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Death Edict? | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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