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...years had the Civil Aeronautics Board been so pleased with the "young, vigorous and growing" U.S. airline industry. In a report to Congress last week, CAB noted that the onetime money-losing industry had climbed into the black in 1949 and that the future looked bright...
Within the next five to ten years, CAB predicted, the majority of U.S. travelers who make trips of 1,000 miles or more will go by air. "This [trend] is certainly true of first-class travel, and the trend is already apparent with respect to coach-class travel." CAB saw one dark spot ahead: Britain is well in front of the U.S. in the development of jet commercial planes. To catch up, CAB urged Congress at least to help finance the building of jet prototype planes by the U.S. aircraft industry. Failure to do so, warned CAB, might force...
...part. This is especially apparent because she has chosen to do the whole thing in a deep Texas drawl which is neither convincing nor natural. Jack Warden, the only leftover from the original repertory production, is about as convincing a Texas cafe owner as a New York cab driver might have been in the same role...
...seamen and shipyard workers have become cab drivers, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, trolley conductors, house painters. During the Christmas rush, a former ship captain worked in a department store as a detective...
...Mike! As news of the police action spread, the remaining Cardenas cabbies raced downtown, began to stone and overturn Marfil Marrón cabs. By threats and cajolery, they persuaded the larger, more conservative Cab Drivers Syndicate to join them in a strike. By nightfall there was not a cab to be hailed in all Mexico City...