Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortwave voice communications setup called the Citizens Radio Service. It was established by the Federal Communications Commission as a short-distance (150 miles maximum) two-way radio system for people who needed it for business or professional reasons: a doctor keeping in touch with his office from his car, taxicab fleets sending directions to cruising cabs, contractors issuing orders to trucks, farm wives calling to their husbands in distant fields. In a rash moment, the FCC also authorized house-to-automobile communi cations on a noncommercial, or "Honey, bring home a loaf of bread'' basis...
...Joseph Casey, 72, star reporter at home and overseas for the Chicago Daily News from 1920 to 1947, a blithe spirit who taunted his publishers with such expense-account items as 10? for wolfbane after covering a wolf hunt, and tickled his readers with such feats as hiring a taxicab during the "phony" war of 1939 to tootle past France's Maginot Line and inspect the Nazis' Siegfried Line; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
When James Agee died of a heart attack in a New York taxicab at the age of 45, he was already something of a legend. The legend partly derived from the very fact that he was so little known and had written so little outside of his critical and journalistic work. His admirers cherished him like a shared secret...
...Churchill walked away from a plane crash at London's Croydon airport. At 48, he surrendered his appendix to a surgeon's knife and, nine years later in the U.S., lost a decision to a Manhattan taxicab, which knocked him down and broke some Churchillian bones. Since his 70th birthday, the ailments have come thick and fast: a hernia operation in 1947, a stroke in 1953 and, two years ago, a broken bone in his back from a fall in his London home. On that occasion, Churchill celebrated his 86th birthday with cigars and-in place of brandy...
...stare at a blonde chorine named Marion Davies. He already had a wife, five sons, a gold mine, seven magazines, ten newspapers, more than a million acres of land-and now he wanted the chorine. Getting her was as easy for William Randolph Hearst as hailing a taxicab. Remarkably, she remained his mistress for 34 years...