Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decent speakeasy in Minneapolis. With the first part of his statement I have no quarrel though I think his estimate is too low as there are 100,000 homes in Minneapolis. The second part of his statement simply shows he was taken in hand by a green taxi driver. I don't want to brag but we in Minneapolis have speakeasies that compare with any in New York, Chicago or Washington. Why, we point to our speakeasies with pride, just like we point to our symphony orchestra, flour mills and lakes. One section in was ''done" particular...
Louisville, the Gateway to the South, in addition to leading the World in 17 industries, has a cheaper taxi rate than the "cheapest in the U. S." mentioned on p. 18 of your issue of Feb. 24. Here, the tariff is two miles for 25C and "Four Can Ride As Cheap As One" so bring the family when you come...
Last week Pittsburgh's taxi strike became violent, culminated in a pitched battle. Like wolves, small packs of strikers ran about the streets of the East Liberty business district, threw bricks, stones, milk-bottles at every passing cab. They swooped down on parked cabs, drove off drivers, wrecked their machines. Gradually the scattered groups grew larger, coalesced into a thousand-headed monster thinking trouble. Every police reserve in the city raced to disperse the mob. Mounted police charged it unsuccessfully. When the rioting held up traffic, passengers piled out of street cars, joined the fight. Only after three hours...
Meanwhile in New York City taxi grumblings, never still, grew louder. All companies complained that current prices were too low for profits. The city has some 250 cab companies, owning 24,000 taxicabs, operated by 70,000 drivers. The prevalent rate, cheapest in the U. S., is 15? for the first quarter-mile, 5? for each succeeding quarter-mile. Small companies, ramshackle independents charge more; their cabs are avoided by the city-wise. All drivers get 40% of metred receipts. With twelve-hour shifts, day men may get $30 or $40 per week. Night men, with more business, say they...
Last week New York taxi tension increased when Luxford Taxicab Co. announced that it would soon have 1,000 Ford cabs on the city streets, would charge only 15 cents per mile. Fearing violent taxi warfare, Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen who licenses all cabs and drivers interrupted his Florida fishing to telephone a stern prohibition against the new cut rate...