Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, the taxicab drivers are wild and rapacious; they drive fast and they frighten old ladies, by sneering, into paying them exorbitant prices. As a result they are not popular among women; one taxi-driver in Paris, a mild though bearded fellow, posted last week this notice on his cab: "Wanted: a wife. I want to marry. 1 own this cab. The girl must be well...
...drawings, and paintings are dated from the pioneer years of railroading to the present time. Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...
...Manhattan. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, famed for her Wagner, hurried in a taxi toward the Waldorf-Astoria where she was to sing for 1,000 clubwomen. Clubwomen waited but Singer Kappel's cab had crashed into another, she had been thrown from the seat, jounced on the floor. Thirty-five minutes later she entered the Waldorf ballroom. Bruised, she sang...
...Chicago that Yellow taxis, in 1915, made their first appearance; it was in Chicago that they multiplied most rapidly; and it was in Chicago last week that Yellow cabs waged with their rivals. Checker cabs, a fierce, fantastic warfare. The cause of the war was of course to be found in business and labor rivalries. The Yellow cabs belong to the Yellow Cab Co., of which Mr. Hertz is president; it employs drivers, giving them a percentage of their cab earnings. Oldest in Chicago, it has the best and most numerous stands. The Checker Cab Co. is newer, has poorer...
...Unions, of which he is General Secretary, are now slightly dwindling in membership. "People," said Mr. Thomas indignantly, "tell the workers not to believe what their leaders say, and say that the leaders have sold them." It is Mr. Thomas who has risen from a grimy engineer's cab to a snug little mansion with flagstone paths in the garden; to playing bridge with Peers; and to enjoying an occasional audience with His Majesty, who is reported to consider Laborite Thomas' ideas extremely sound...