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...Checker Cab Co. is doing a flourishing business in buggy rides in Boston. The Hub city granted its first hitching-post permit in 300 years last week, planned horse troughs at central gas stations...
George Gearhart, tavern worker, and Robert Pearson, railroad-yard checker, watched the big plane level off at one of the many shadowy knobs dotting Ensign Flat, a plateau east of the city. The plane flew past Ensign Peak. Any moment now Pilot Don Brown should bank, continue his half circle, sail in from the south. He didn...
...Angeles and San Francisco, Yellow & Checker Cab Co. advertisements begged patrons to stay out of taxis except in emergency...
...that it had to operate taxis to be sure of a market in Manhattan, finally began withdrawing in 1934 after it had to repossess two big fleets at a loss of $1,000,000. Next year it sold its Manhattan operating company (Terminal) at another $733,000 loss. Soon Checker Cab Manufacturing Co. was left the only important manufacturer in the field. But even Checker, with a virtual monopoly on production, had dizzy ups & downs...
Today, having got rid of some of its financial oddments like Checker Cab, ATCO owns majority control of New York Shipbuilding Co., the largest single interest (28.5%) in sick Auburn Automobile Co. It also spreads through the flying business like the branches of a banyan tree. This is because of its working (29.7%) control of Aviation Corp., which in turn owns outright a third-layer subsidiary, Aviation Manufacturing Co. AMCO owns Stinson (military and commercial planes), Lycoming (engines) and 60% stock control of Vultee (military planes). Furthermore, its parent Aviation Corp. owns potential working control of American Airlines, through...