Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this." Then he started crying. Paintmaker Gravell's goodness was not his first. Employes said last week he had always given generous Christmas presents, had loaned them money to build homes or meet pressing bills. His nine women office workers swear by him because he pays their taxi fares to and from home each day, also to and from lunch...
...around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry that Mme Mathis was wearing. The jewels dug into her neck...
When M. Mathis turned to the taxi driver and demanded to know why he had given no help, the cabby grumbled...
Chicago's ambulance-chasers not only swindle insurance companies and corporations, but also the accident victims. To the familiar varieties of the racket they added many a new angle. Sample case history: John Doe, hit by a taxi, was hospitalized. At once a hospital attendant earned $10 by telephoning the racketeers. In a few minutes their representative appeared. Denied admittance, he proved good faith by paying the patient's bill in advance. He soon got Doe to sign a contract hiring his employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against...
...Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure promotion of the numbers hawkers, who have enlisted a salesman in nearly every second-rate cigar and drug store, widened their distribution to include porters, office boys, taxi drivers, elevator operators...