Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make for the Department of Justice sketches of the criminal's face: sharp nose, flat cheeks, small mouth, pointed chin...
...small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's penmanship...
...year on the ranch,. Virginia Ewing Gates left a cowhand holding her horse, hiked off. Announced her father, positively: "She is motoring home." Last week, clad in white slacks and a man's shirt, Daughter Virginia hitchhiked into Boise, Idaho, with one Dan McCafferty, onetime wrestler, mechanic and taxi driver. Her story...
Fourth night of the new order Leslie Hore-Belisha spent driving up & down the streets of London with his ears pricked. He was delighted. Even taxi queues at the theatres were hootless. Home to a bath and breakfast, he announced to the Press that effective Sept. 16 the hootless night will be extended to all London and other urban areas throughout Britain. Explained...
...misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty-four. Then there were the fourteen minutes consumed by the taxi driver in taking the Vagabond from Harvard Square to Smith Halls (obs.) via Shady Hill. Total, thirty-eight minute. Thirty-eight. Nineteen hundred thirty eight, class of. Incredible...