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...meant that the next one would strike just about where he was. The cabbie dashed panic-stricken into a nearby tavern and Greene threw himself on the floor of the back. The bomb lit only 100 yards away and its concussion knocked the correspondent against the side of the cab shaken but unhurt...
Down the crowded aisles of the store darted the Espositos, through the block-long building. At the far entrance they climbed into a cab, put a gun at the driver's head. But Madison Avenue was jammed with traffic; they were trapped. "Get going. Make it fast. Get moving or we'll kill you." Back in the store panic was spreading as police with drawn revolvers moved down the aisles shouting, "Get down!" The cab stalled behind a bus. Like men leaping over a cliff, the brothers jumped out into the traffic. At sight of the two running...
...shivery sight met his eye as he turned the corner. On the sidewalk lay two men-a policeman and a cab driver. Another man, wounded, was struggling to rise. Clicking his camera faster than he could think, Max Haas moved toward the group on the street...
...crash put Franklin Roosevelt's new CAB on a hotter spot than ever. Thirteen of the airlines' perfect 17 months were flown under the supervision of the old Civil Aeronautics Authority. By Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried...
This week Am Ex officials plotted new ways to combat Pan Am, hoped for CAB action on the TACA purchase within about a week. Am Ex has the tacit backing of the U. S. War, Navy and State Departments. Pan Am has vast resources, an experienced Washington lobby and the knowledge that TACA's Guatemalan rights, core of the line, will expire next February-unless General Ubico renews them...