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...body of Carlos Quilly, who had been fatally shot in the back while driving his taxi, and was being flown back to Puerto Rico for burial. The cortege was a moving protest by the drivers against their biggest occupational hazard: violent crime. Reported holdups of New York cab drivers number more than 600 a year, and 14 cabbies have been murdered in the last seven years. Says Joe Paradise, an official of the local cab drivers' union: "We are sick and tired because we are the forgotten men. Cabbies get killed, mugged, beaten up, but there is no action...
...While cab drivers are frequent victims of crime, they are also frequent heroes-tipping off police to fights and robberies and often joining in the pursuit and capture of lawbreakers. Two months ago, while honoring 75 of them for heroism, Police Commissioner Howard Leary called them "the city's second police force...
Growing Shortage. With cab crime on the front page day after day, New Yorkers have begun to think anew about taxis. Complaints that drivers are rude, ignore hails and refuse to take Negroes to Harlem are familiar: the police department gets 500 of them per month. What New Yorkers really wonder about, as they try in vain to get a cab during rush hour or rainstorm, is whether or not cabs are becoming scarcer...
Astoundingly, the answer is yes. In 1929, New York City had close to 29,000 taxis. But the Depression put many of them out of business, and competition for passengers among those remaining led to such ferociovis cab wars -with arson and shooting-that the city in 1937 severely limited the number to prevent even more violence. New York now has only 11,772 licensed taxis to serve almost 1,000,000 passengers a day. Similar hold-downs afflict people in Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and San Francisco...
...Angeles or San Francisco. No fewer than 18 airlines are begging the CAB to let them put new flights on the Honolulu route. Already, tourists spend $300 million a year, making tourism Hawaii's largest civilian source of income, larger than the pineapple and sugar businesses combined. To accommodate them, some $350 million worth of hotel construction has gone up in the past five years. The boom has also created new jobs to absorb the unemployment created by automation on the plantations. Tourism's latest and most exciting surge is now to outer Oahu and what the Hawaiians...