Word: taxicabbing
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...Arnstein was en route from San Francisco to China. Product of the violence of Chicago's stockyard district, a onetime professional football player, a taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever to the Government for $1 a year...
...taxicab driver in Bogotá spoke up for the people. Said he: "This is the only kind of action those bastards in Berlin can understand...
...found a taxicab and ordered the driver to go to the Hotel Majestic. Five times on the way the driver had to detour around tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank units. The driver kept muttering: "Against the people! Against the people!" He thought the tanks and the guns and the soldiers were there to suppress demonstrations against the Axis. Correspondent Brock thought...
...Supersalesman Waters, the taxicab business looked as easy as anything else. After selling an occasional taxicab on the side, he jumped in with both feet in 1936, landed a $3,500,000 order for 2,500 cabs from a new operating system (Sunshine) organized in Manhattan that year. To manufacture them, he contracted with De Soto for chassis and body parts, set up his own assembly plant in Detroit. His De Soto SkyView cab now roams Manhattan streets about 7,000 strong...
Night after night the bombers came, morning after morning London went to work redeyed. But London remained on the whole good-natured. The Times's bridge correspondent complained a bit that the raids were "having a serious effect on bridge." But a taxicab driver inserted an advertisement in the Times's personal column apologizing for losing his temper during a raid...