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Placed on sale early last week in Salvadorean banks, the bonds sold briskly to shop girls, taxi drivers and other small citizens. Less than $400,000 worth were bought by members of the Twenty Families. At week's end the $5,000,000 issue was entirely subscribed...
...Louis he was awake at 5:15, shaved and dressed at 5:30, and out striding along downtown sidewalks at 5:45. At one point during his jaunt he spotted a naval enlisted man named William Hall, standing on the sidewalk in a heated post-dawn argument with a taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer: the Pacific. The taxi driver drove off as though he had just seen the biggest traffic...
Tough-talking Benny Gold often sounds like a New York cab driver, and used to be one. Born in Russia, he started a taxicab company in Brooklyn soon after World War I, went broke when he tried to buck the cab drivers during a taxi strike in 1938. Confesses Benny: "They...
...Pretti met his sharpest test. As he carried his case of Coke into one restaurant, a wine-drinking taxi driver called out: "There comes the licorice water!" Pretti indignantly reeled off a long list of Coke ingredients which had nothing to do with licorice. "Have you," Pretti asked, "ever tasted Coca-Cola?" Said the taxi driver: "Once-and never again." Said Pretti: "Ah, but you must try Coca-Cola in the wine." He produced two bottles and poured them into a glass of Chianti. Two of the customers tasted the mixture. They approved of it cautiously. As Pretti left they...
...week's end, the landlords gave ground; they agreed to submit the issues to a fact-finding commission. Strikers ripped off their picketing signs. Soon the streets were once more loud with the shrilling of doormen's taxi whistles...