Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control system. To acknowledge that signal and keep his train rolling, Engineer King pulled down a small lever. He knew he was in dangerous territory, that the running rules required him to be able to stop in the length of his own vision. He pulled open...
Soon after the disaster Engineer King, dazed but unhurt, was sitting on his seat when an Erie official climbed into the cab ordered him to test his brakes. They were in good order. At the investigation that followed King admitted he saw the signals, knew No. 8 was just ahead, put on speed against the rules. Accused of "assuming too much," he replied: "Everyday service led me to assume. It made me a little bold. I was taking a chance and going a little too fast. . . . But the collision wouldn't have occurred if No. 8's flagman...
...sedan started up with a jerk, shot down Wolf Road. The taxi driver and his passenger leaped from their cab, began dancing up & down in the road, waving their arms at an army airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head...
...Errett Lobban Cord, who last fortnight added ships to his transportation empire (TIME, Aug. 14), last week annexed another province-taxicabs. His loyal, hardbitten Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning quietly announced that his boss had obtained control of $4,000,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., largest U. S. company building taxis exclusively. As is almost always the case when Cord Corp. buys up a company. Mr. Cord stepped in as chairman, Lou Manning went on the executive committee...
...stand trial, Joseph Wright Harriman, 66-year-old indicted Manhattan banker, disappeared, second time in two months (TIME, May 29). While his wife and daughter, who were to testify, waited in Mrs. Harriman's apartment, he slipped out of the service en trance of his sanatorium, took a cab to a Hudson River ferry. Back & forth between Manhattan and New Jersey, Banker Harriman rode six times on different boats, gazing moodily at the water. Twice he started to climb over the rail, was hauled back by deckhands who failed to recognize him until hours later when they heard...