Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph J. Eller and two assistants descended from a taxicab at the Post Graduate Hospital. A few minutes later they discovered that a small black satchel containing 500 milligrams ($30,000 worth) of radium had been left in the cab, each man having thought that another had it. Word was sent to all the newspapers warning the finder to ware burning himself. Next morning a restaurateur a few blocks from the hospital reported discovering the bag under a table in his restaurant. Its intervening experiences were unknown...
Familiar to Manhattanites, cherished by them, is the bouncing, bumping, jolting but economical 15 & 5 taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...
Taxi companies estimated that the gas tax has increased operating expenses per cab by 40?a day. Additional insurance rates have produced a 50? a day increase. A taxi's daily intake is about $23, its net about $4. According to A. S. Freed, head of Paramount Cab Mfg. Co., the threatened 30? a mile rate (well within the legal limit of 40? would barely compensate for added costs of doing business...
...heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...
...guard in blue whistles for a cab and off, to the immense admiration of the throng of mere tourists waiting outside, goes the Job-Seeker...