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...campaign got under way, labor punched doorbells, manned sound-trucks, flooded the country with campaign literature. In Chicago alone, labor mustered nearly 10,000 volunteer workers. Many a worker in Democratic headquarters had his salary paid by labor. On Election Day labor provided free babysitters, free taxi service and piled up Democratic pluralities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Crossfire | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Jake Kramer and Dinny Pails, touring tennis pros, got off with minor bumps and scratches when their car skidded and rolled over twice near Gunnedah, New South Wales. They made it to their next scheduled exhibition match by taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Extensive practice has been the keynote for the Crimson harriers this week, and Mikkola's makeshift taxi-service--an HAA laundry wagon and his own private car--has been running steadily transporting runners to and from practice grounds around Boston. "We can't go too much trouble if it means a chance of beating Yale," Mikkola asserts. "Twice in a row is too much," Mikkola adds. "I'd hate to see it happen a third time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Face Yale and Princeton; Freshmen Should Outshine Varsity | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size, might also make the pedestrian's lot a happier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Safety First | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...days after his replacement arrived from Warsaw, the ex-consul bade them all farewell and proudly displayed two tickets for home, via Venice. Boarding the train next day, he bundled his family off before it reached Venice, roared across the Swiss border in a taxi and hopped the first plane to Johannesburg, South Africa. At the same time the Czechoslovakian Ministry in Rome became impervious to telephone bells. Czech Minister Jan Pauliny-Toth had slipped across the Swiss border, London bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Displaced Diplomats | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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