Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there is no plumbing), to dispose of garbage, and to levy...
Blow Cold. Patterson thinks the airplane is still in the taxicab stage, and that the day of cheap mass transportation is years away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until we learn...
Winter ice annually brings a spurt to auto accidents. Last Friday, for example, a passenger car pinned two taxicab riders in a night time smashup. After all efforts to extricate the trapped victims had proved unsuccessful the rescue truck arrived at the scene and exacted an escape...
Gloria Swanson, svelte survivor of the silent screen and five marriages, survived a New York City taxicab crash that bowled one of the cabs over. Injuries to Siren Swanson: an egg on the brow, a skewgee...
G.I.s in Paris brought back news of Trenet. Others heard of him in Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph (TIME, Jan. 28), whose hero listened to Trenet on a taxicab radio. The advance buildup was so good that Trenet was signed by the Embassy Club for what amounts to about $6,500 a week. He is a bachelor...