Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there is no plumbing), to dispose of garbage, and to levy...
...days of pavement-pounding and questioning to do. Beyond talking to people themselves they went straight to those people who spend most of their time talking to others: ministers, personnel managers, employment agency heads, political ward heelers who punch doorbells the year round, salesmen, bartenders, traffic cops, waitresses, cab drivers, barbers, etc. One correspondent, who has found the method highly productive in the past, went around picking up hitchhikers to get their variegated viewpoint...
...obvious way to find an apartment is to call a real-estate agent-anywhere but in Rio, that is. Agents here can't find apartments and they firmly refuse new business. So you read advertisements, spot something, find a cab-if you can-and speed to it. After weeks of that sort of searching you become gun-shy. Why? Because "furnished" apartments are that in name only...
Despite his big stock ownership, Robert R. Young was not yet running the New York Central. But last week he accepted an invitation to ride in the locomotive cab. The invitation had come without much prodding...
...informal poll conducted at eating establishment, cab-stands, and barbershops around the Square, employees of these places reported that students are definitely not good tippers...