Word: cabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Street Scene. In Manhattan, a bus passed up Raphael Torres, who grabbed a cab, chased the bus 33 blocks, caught it, whipped out a knife and stabbed the driver...
When a 16-year-old Jewish boy named Alexander Rubovitz disappeared, someone remembered seeing him on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...
...boss of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Chairman Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. thought he could speed things up. He held that it should not take months-as it often has-for CAB to make up its mind. Last week he got a chance to prove it. Up before CAB came one of the airlines' bitterest squabbles-the fight between Braniff Airways, Inc. and Pan American Airways Corp. for business in Latin America (TIME...
...domains once monopolized by Pan American Airways and Pan American-Grace (Panagra flies the West Coast, Pan Am the East). Both lines opposed Braniff's entry on the ground that the territory could not support a third U.S. flag line. But President Truman, taking the matter out of CAB's hands, gave Braniff the routes...
...month ago, Pan Am and Panagra carried their fight to Congress. They pointed out that Braniff had asked for airmail subsidies of $3,000,000 a year, 22 times what it had originally estimated it would need. Last week they made a last-ditch effort to get CAB to hold new hearings...