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Daniel G. Arnstein is a very rapid character. Everything he does is fast-from spending money in Manhattan nightclubs to trucking freight and cracking down on labor agitators in his huge Terminal System Inc. of New York City, which controls among other things some 4,500 New York taxis. Firm friends, bitter enemies, a tidy fortune and fame as No. 1 expert in motor transport-all these he attained in a hurry...
Last week, as he hustled to Clipper home from China, where Harry Hopkins had dispatched him (at $1 a year) to pep up lend-lease traffic on the fabled Burma Road, Speedster Arnstein had again done his stuff...
...Garden), accommodating 5,000 dancers, 4,000 spectators, folded. It never got its hoped-for weekly attendance of about 30,000, finally ran into a scorching weekend, and one night only 1,500 customers appeared. Among the backers who shared the rumored $85,000 loss: Terminal Taxicab President Dan Arnstein, now en route to China...
Truckers. Groggy from typhoid and cholera inoculations, but bubbling with enthusiasm at the prospect of the toughest job of a tough career, rawboned, hulking, strikebreaking Dan Arnstein was en route from San Francisco to China. Product of the violence of Chicago's stockyard district, a onetime professional football player, a taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever...
Harry Hopkins had assigned him one of the most important posts on the world democratic front: the reorganization of trucking on the Burma Road. Dan Arnstein and two associates, M. F. Hellman and H. C. Davis, set off to take over. Mr. Arnstein's chief regret: that he could not take his taxi drivers with him to Burma. Moaned he: "Half the boys wanted to quit and go with me; the boys don't want to get paid for it-all they want is excitement...