Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snatch. Oldster Dreher justified his 40 years in the business with an oldtime scoop. Somehow he got word of Farmer Bonifas' early morning call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet it he did. He commandeered the child, dragged him down on the floor of the taxi in case any of his rivals might have had a similar "hunch," got the whole exciting tale first hand...
...extravagance was the farmers' choice of transport. Washington is divided into three taxicab zones. A ride anywhere in Zone 1 costs 20<<4 and Zone i covers practically all the business and government building section. Since five can ride as cheaply as one, a two-mile trip can be made for less money in one of Washington's taxis (mostly Chevrolets) than on one of Washington's street cars (fare 10?) whose routes are so confused by the city's intricate plan as to be practically unintelligible to a stranger. Rich visitors sometimes tip as much...
Waiting for Lefty, whose locale is closer to home, is another matter entirely. Transforming the audience into a meeting of a New York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious...
...week, rolled off to a dance in Philadelphia. Just outside town he slambanged into a parked automobile, giving its driver several bruised ribs, a cut on the eye. Charged with assault and battery by automobile, the President's third son was allowed to proceed to his dance by taxicab. Next night he appeared in court to explain that he had been blinded by snow, that when he tramped down on the brake, his car skidded. He was released without bond for a hearing...
...doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message to Dr. Condon which opened up the ill-starred negotiations. The inexplicable "Jafsie" was able only "partially" to identify Hauptmann when first confronted with him. There is literally no telling what the 74-year...