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...walnut-paneled room in Washington, the Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury...
...Cab drivers hate the damn thing," said Richard W. Fligg of the Harvard Taxi Company, commenting on the Square's new rotary traffic system. "Companies have lost their stands in front of Waldorf's, the Harvard Trust Company, and Howard Johnson's. Brattle Cab has been pushed clear back to Church Street...
...only have all the cab companies lost money, according to Fligg, but the abolition of the old stands has created such a demand for space in the Lehman Hall line that "more than ten drivers have received tickets for double-parking at the end of the line in the past few days...
...After studying the world's cab-riding habits at some length," announced Tomo-michi Tanaka, a bristling, bossy little ex-lieutenant general of the Japanese army air force, "I find that Americans and Europeans like to ride up front. This is a sign of higher culture. They don't like to see the rear view of the sweating driver. In the East, due to low culture, passengers ride in back. In Siam, for example, so low is the culture that the law forbids push-type cabs for fear the passengers will be assaulted by the drivers...
Three years ago Charles J. Gray was out of a job and nearly broke when he began to drive a taxi in a suburb of Flint, Mich. For a while he had some rough going, but now he owns the North End Cab Co., with six taxis and an office. A few weeks ago 46-year-old Cabman Gray decided it was time to do something he had been thinking about for a long time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides...