Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper in the colored waiting room, he crossed over to the white side to get one. The agent, cursing, ran out to warn him back-and Rowan returned his curses. When the agent ran to the telephone, Rowan, fearing that there might be trouble, fled from town by taxicab...
...Singapore, a Chinese takes a taxicab at night and in a lonely area holds up the driver, seizes his money and identity card and sets the cab on fire. Or three or four men take a bus at night and ride until the rest of the passengers alight. Then they set fire to the bus. Returning to my hotel one evening recently, I passed one of these buses just burned...
...Finnish capital. Finally the five Pontecorvos piled in, along with half a dozen large suitcases. As the bus entered the city, the Pontecorvo boy asked again, "Are we now in Russia?" Just outside the Finnish Airways office in the Esplanade, the bus stopped. The Pontecorvos picked up a taxicab and sped off. After that, no trace...
When a Milwaukee taxicab company once gave each of the city's 27 aldermen an electric blanket for Christmas, most of them gratefully accepted the gift even though the aldermen control taxicab rates. They soon wished they hadn't. Reason: the Milwaukee Journal caught wind of the story, promptly played it on Page One. For Milwaukee, the Journal thought it added up to a major political scandal...
...June 12 the University of Rochester awarded Romulo an honorary degree at its centenary commencement. Romulo had flown 12,000 miles in four days from Manila only to have the car carrying him from the airport collide with a taxicab three blocks from the Eastman Theatre in downtown Rochester. He arrived on the commencement platform just as his degree citation was being read...