Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country back to some status of morality as relates to people who have some service to sell, someone should start a movement to stop tipping. And that means tips to cab drivers, waiters, waitresses, barbers and the whole lot who have their greedy hands out to be greased by a tip in payment not for services rendered and to be paid for, but as an inducement for them to refrain from being nasty and rude...
Horning In. In Rome, N.Y., fined $5 for driving his cab on the sidewalk, Cabby Arthur M. Carr explained that he went to pick up a fare who was having trouble walking straight...
...murmured: "Where are our friends and our tickets?" Gustav shrugged. It was then they learned that the play was a quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing for a cab. the royal couple were quickly embroiled in a horrendous Piccadilly Circus traffic snarl, including fire engines, but they got to the Globe only 15 minutes late. The King smiled fleetingly when the Queen said that the Haymarket had been her error. The Haymarket, which had so briefly and unknowingly enjoyed...
...midst of the curbstone babble, a Brooklyn cab driver shrugged: "It's a corrupt city. You gotta expect things like this. Everybody in this city has his hand out. Everybody's takin'. Nobody's givin...
HONG KONG AIR ROUTE will be approved for Northwest Airlines in near future by British government. Service will start immediately thereafter. Northwest won CAB approval to extend its transpacific route from Tokyo to Hong Kong after British opposition was overcome by President Eisenhower's approval for BOAC to add a San Francisco-Tokyo leg to its round-the-world flights...