Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberal Democratic Party's Public Morals and Health Committee. "The remainder I spent investigating prostitution in foreign countries at first hand." On a globe-girdling trip to the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Bangkok, Manabe stopped in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Washington, New York and London. "I just asked taxi drivers to take me to brothels," he said...
...three-week campaign is divided into three phases, concentrating first on children and the sick, then on women, finally on men. There are special programs for various vocations-from artists, attorneys, ballerinas, bartenders, bus drivers to policemen, professors, radio-TV workers, social workers, soldiers, students, taxi drivers. In a daily round of rallies, 22 bishops and archbishops from all over Italy moved from one group to another. Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro scheduled six sermons for meetings of Milan intellectuals and Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri was signed up for seven to business executives...
Taxmen figure that the crackdown will bring in only several million dollars at most. But in the process, it will create worry and confusion for millions of taxpayers. Even the office employee who works late and gets money for supper and a taxi home will have to list it as income: late suppers will probably not be taxed; cabs...
...justice long enough. They stormed from the court into the mosque grounds, drove out the Reds and tore down most of the Red decorations with their bare hands. Even Allah seemed to be taking a hand in the matter: the Red lawyer was killed by a train when his taxi stalled on a railroad crossing. At long last the Indonesian court ruled hastily that Pak Murah and his Communists must vacate the premises forthwith. The Reds promptly filed an appeal. Last week both factions were sitting tight awaiting the final decision, but the prostitutes had gone, and the sacred pool...
...terminal to make Logan even more efficient. Next month Dallas' Love Field will open a $7,500,000 terminal building with facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city has also built a 500,000-gal. underground fuel-storage system, and concrete taxi aprons and loading ramps thick enough for heavier jetliners than any yet designed. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco also expect to be ready with long runways and big terminals. Though San Francisco's new $14 million terminal is only three years old, the city's voters...