Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumor had it (and the chiefly interested party-John Hertz-refused to make denial), that the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. - makers of the vivid yellow things that flit the streets of the nation's cities as their meters tick off fares-was to be merged with the General Motors Corp...
...Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. controls the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co., (makers of busses) and the Yellow Cab Co.'s in this country. The stock of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. is worth about $28,000,000. The rumor as promulgated in Chicago had it that the merger was to include the omnibus company which controls the Chicago Motor Coach Co., operators of busses and the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. (Manhattan), also bus operators - in which case it would be a $60,000,000 affair and put General Motors into the operating as well as manufacturing business, taking control...
Having successfully-or apparently so -swept through the country, the Drive-It-Yourself movement has at length invaded New York City also. The movement has resulted from an inspiration in the fertile brain of John Hertz, taxicab king and controller of the Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, May 5, 1924; July 7). It has been incorporated as "The Yellow Drive - It-Yourself" System...
...Company, which is a subsidiary of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Corporation, has about 150 stations through the country already; it is now operating some 600 of its cars in Chicago as well as about 100 each in Cleveland, Louisville, St. Louis...
...taxi-drivers guild, "The Federation of Operating Associations," which represents 8,000 cab-operators. Reports were recited of how cabmen, roused to fury by the cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs...