Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxicabs, changed its system of paying drivers. Instead of receiving $3 on the first $9 collected and 20% of receipts over $11, drivers were to get 37½% of metred receipts. Parmalee's drivers, some 1,500, demanded 40%. Refused, they organized a union, struck. Parmalee hired strikebreakers ("taxi-scabs") to operate their green and yellow cars. The 2½% difference between the company and the union became a mighty issue of principle which even Secretary of Labor James John Davis, right in his home town, could not mediate...
...upon Boston Common where was displayed a Coast Guard recruiting sign, guarded by Chief Water Tender George Briggs. "Dirty murderers!" cried the crowd as it became a mob, knocked down Briggs. tore his recruiting poster to shreds, kicked its frame to bits about the Common. Briggs fled in a taxi...
...little man was so overcome with joy that tears coursed steadily down his cheeks, sobs choked him. He was unable to respond to frenzied exhortations for a speech. The pandemonium lasted 15 minutes. Almost smothered by his well-wishers, Editor Leon Daudet clung to the famous taxi, the very cab in which last year he was spirited away from the Prison de la Santé to Brussels with French secret service men upon his track (TIME, July...
...last the frantically honking chauffeur was able to get the ancient taxi started and it wheezed slowly off amid a white shower of flowers. Soon it clattered to a stop at the modest residence of Mme. Alphonse Daudet, widow of the great novelist whose Letters from My Mill have delighted millions. On the doorstep mother clasped son -the son who keeps up an indomitable fight for monarchy as editor of the newspaper L' Action Française. To the paper's masthead is nailed a stirring line pledging the paper to support the Due de Guise, heritier...
Carl Ben Eielson, 32, is, perhaps was, general manager of Alaskan Airways. There are no regular air transport lines in the Peninsula. Alaskan Airways has bases at Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks. It charters its planes for taxi and express service, using about 70 small government landing fields in summer and any patch of level snow in winter...