Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mass picketing by students of Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley took place in Harvard Square yesterday for the striking drivers of the Yellow Cab Company on the eve of today's meeting of the State Arbitration Board investigating the labor dispute...
Local 381 of the Taxicab Drivers of America struck a week ago last Friday against the Yellow Cab Company in order to get "a family wage of a mere $15 for a 10 hour day." The Union under President Stephen A. Dunlevy charges that President Magann of the taxi company makes enough profit out of the company after paying his 90 drivers $12.60 a week to run a stable of racing horses...
Seventy-two of the 90 men are now on strike and Dunlevy yesterday made "an appeal to the Harvard faculty who make up most of the telephone patronage of the Yellow Cab Company...
...truck one night last week, trailing a car ahead. Suddenly the twin taillights in front of him melted into the road, disappeared. Driver Lewis caught a quick glimpse of a black gap in the concrete before his own truck plunged. The lights went out, water rushed into the cab. He smashed a window, somehow came up in a turgid flood...
...luck moved fast and deviously one foggy night this week on the Chicago Great Western Railroad. On a siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great...