Word: cab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Arbuckle. Calif, an oil truck collided with a passenger car, burst into flames. The truck driver, pinned in his cab, roasted slowly to death while helpless onlookers sprayed water...
Mandeville Zenge promptly supplied more headlines by paying off a cab at a Chicago pier and walking into the night. Behind he left a blood-stained coat and a suicide note: "I left home because I was so miserably unhappy over losing Louise ... I suppose she is better off married to that doctor ... I know what I am doing...
...limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner, spied some newshawks, then loped on her lively 7AA's to her Pullman, pausing on the vestibule steps to fling her head...
...exhibiting films. Its troubles were almost wholly financial. And in 1931 its bankers cajoled John Daniel Hertz into taking the Paramount command as chairman of the finance committee. The thickset, sinewy Chicago financier had been making half-hearted attempts to retire since 1926 when he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. to General Motors for more than a few millions...
Last week in Evanston, Ill., a dark Semitic-looking man and his beauteous brown-haired wife hastened out of a little red-brick cottage behind a nurse carrying a basket. In the basket was a baby. The foursome climbed into a cab, were whisked to Chicago's County Court. There Al Jolson, famed publicizer of motherhood, and Wife Ruby Keeler, who for two years had wanted a child, formally adopted a 7-week-old black-locked son. Father Jolson had rushed from Manhattan, Mother Keeler from Hollywood for the adoption. Soon as they signed the papers, each rushed back...