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...Brooklyn last week, two Pittsburgh sportwriters grabbed a cab after the ball game. They asked the cab driver what he thought of his Dodgers. The elaborately bored driver replied curtly: "In Brooklyn we're even turning off the television sets...
Three days later, help came from CAB. It granted T.W.A. a 110% boost in its foreign mail pay to $6,300,000 a year, retroactive to Jan. i. T.W.A. thus got $1,100,000, exactly what it needed to shoo the wolf away. But T.W.A. was in such bad shape that this was no guarantee that the wolf would stay shooed for long...
Unlike Crapo Smith, leathery Daniel G. Arnstein is still young at 58, very much alive, and dapper rather than dignified. He quit school at 13 to help support his family, worked as a $2-a-week office boy, and later as a cab starter. For a while, he went to night school, carried a dictionary around with him to look up the words he didn't know. But he never got to college: "I majored in work...
Bumpy Air. U.S. airlines were feeling the hot breath of foreign competition in transatlantic aviation. In the first six months of 1947, American Overseas, Pan American Airways and T.W.A. carried 75.4% of all passengers. In the second half, CAB announced, their share was down to 71.2%. For both U.S. and foreign lines, traffic volume was well up: the total of 114,128 passengers was an increase of 42.5% over 1947's first half...
Less than 100 hours after it heard their arguments, CAB gave its answer: no. New hearings, said the Board, would "cast a dark shadow across the certificate already lawfully issued and in full force and effect." Moreover, it was reasonable that a line flying a new route should get a bigger subsidy; both Pan Am and Panagra had so benefited when they started...