Word: taxicabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Fyler, a Chicago engineer, installed a taxicab television...
...Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied on top for il piccolo...
...package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would like to know, however, whether they thought he was already incapacitated or just using commendable foresight...
GREENVILLE, S.C., May 14--R. Carlos Hurd, Sr., a 45-year-old taxicab dispatcher, was named in statements today by three of the 31 defendants as the man who fired shotgun volleys through the head of a gashed and beaton Negro, 24-year-old Willie Earle...
...Manhattan, the hero's tale of the man who jumped for the bit to stop a runaway horse was re-enacted in modern terms by a motorist named Hugh Kelly. Seeing a taxicab out of control with its driver slumped over the wheel, Kelly swung his own car in front of the cab, eased it to a stop. The cabdriver, victim of a heart attack, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived...