Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tough-talking Benny Gold often sounds like a New York cab driver, and used to be one. Born in Russia, he started a taxicab company in Brooklyn soon after World War I, went broke when he tried to buck the cab drivers during a taxi strike in 1938. Confesses Benny: "They...
Officials at the Defense Department, who come and go, usually enter into their duties with no more ceremony than attends a taxicab wedding in Las Vegas, Nev.-a routine swearing-in, generally in Louis Johnson's Pentagon office dining room, congratulations from several dozen officeholders, kisses from relatives, and bored coverage by a handful of newsmen. But things were different last week when Chief Justice Fred Vinson administered the oath of office to lanky Frank Pace Jr., 37, new Secretary of the Army...