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...such deals, plus new scheduled routes from CAB (TIME, May 9, 1949), the line has built its monthly payload to 2,000,000 Ibs. in 1949-50, as much as it carried its entire first year. Last week the freight future looked so bright that Bob Prescott planned to expand his 24-plane fleet. He placed a bid for 18 mothballed Air Force C-46s. But Prescott, who has clawed his way through more than one freight-rate battle with the scheduled passenger lines, thinks he still has plenty of fighting to do. Complained he: "As long as [the passenger...
Another result: Trans World Airlines, which long had battled the merger, finally gave up, mollified by CAB permission to fly to London and Frankfurt. Said T.W.A. Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "The court has spoken. T.W.A. intends to say it with service...
...book starts promisingly enough when an enraged elephant on an English circus train flails about with its trunk in the cab of a nearby locomotive and sends a passenger train off on a wild, wreck-climaxed run. Just before the crash, a U.S. gangster type slips his revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...
Tough-talking Benny Gold often sounds like a New York cab driver, and used to be one. Born in Russia, he started a taxicab company in Brooklyn soon after World War I, went broke when he tried to buck the cab drivers during a taxi strike in 1938. Confesses Benny: "They...
...white and bleeding, some with their hair and clothes on fire. One man pulled red-hot metal strips out of a side window with his bare hands, tumbled out crying in agony. But in three minutes the whole car was enveloped in fire; the trucker was dead in his cab and the screaming had stopped...