Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following five weeks of continuous picketing, the Yellow Cab strikers yesterday won most of their points before the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation. All men will return to work today...
Adopting new tactics in their three-week-old walkout against the Cambridge Yellow Cab Company, strikers are now organizing a corps of student pickets who "picket by telephone...
...when the airline business suddenly looked good, Partner John D. Hertz (Yellow Cab Co.) of Lehman Bros, joined with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to purchase 81,204 shares of T. W. A. from General Motors at some $14.50 a share. This 13% interest gave them operating control. Next year T. W. A. made $205,000 and its stockclimbed to $27.50. But in 1937 T.W.A. lost $959,000, in 1938 $773,000. Its stock dropped to $4, was last week at $8 when Lehman Bros, announced with an audible sigh of relief that it had sold out to Jack...
...cab company is an economic dependency of Harvard just like all the other business in the Square. Any boycott by the faculty and students is a blow to the company and an aid to the drivers in the fight for a living wage...
...good many of the faculty men have assisted and a large group of students have taken an active part in picketing. Particularly during the commencement season Harvard men are urged to boycott the Yellow Cab if the demands are not met by that time," Dunlevy stated...