Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord Corp. controlled not only these plus Auburn but Aviation Corp. (American Airways), Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. and New York Shipbuilding Corp...
...that Capitalist Cord, who kept his fortune in 1929 by a wise abstinence from the markets, had begun to dabble and get burned. Cord stayed in England for two years. Then last summer he attracted the attention of the Securities & Exchange Commission because of his heavy trading in Checker Cab stock. Last April came the astonishing news that hard-bitten Mr. Cord had gone to a Chicago hospital "for a needed rest...
Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended...
...June i, Joseph N. Carnaggio was sitting in his privately-owned cream & yellow Plymouth cab in front of Washington's Dodge Hotel when he spied a pair coming down the steps. Driver Carnaggio asked if he could take them anywhere. "How does one go about seeing the U. S.?" asked the man, with a British accent...
...their taxi odyssey the Smiths paid a 25?-a-mile rate and Carnaggio's hotel expenses. They put up $1,000 bond to permit the cab to enter Canada, followed Carnaggio's suggestion to detour and see the Dionne Quintuplets. In Manhattan they stayed a week at the Gramercy Park Hotel. Then Carnaggio put them on the Berengaria and Mr. Smith peeled off $625 plus a bottle of Mischief perfume, which he manufactures. On the trip the Smiths lost a Voigtlander camera. To show his thanks, Driver Carnaggio bought a new one for $30, mailed it to England...