Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impatient Patient. How ill was Sir Winston? Having survived front-line skirmishes and capture in the Boer War. three serious bouts with pneumonia, a collision with a New York taxicab (in 1931), not to mention most of the 20th century's great military and political crises, he apparently was not taking his illness too seriously. He had to be bulldozed into taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front...
...Shift. In Chicago, Mrs. Violet Fine gave birth to a baby girl in a taxicab on the way to the hospital, said she had phoned for the cab instead of waking up her cab-driver husband because he works at night, and "I hated to disturb...
...onerous purchase tax. The levy on furs, jewelry, cosmetics and similar luxuries dropped from 100% to 75%; for automobiles, vacuum cleaners and the like, from 66.6% to 50%; for carpets, linoleum, domestic hardware, clocks, watches, toys, etc., from 33.3% to 25%. To halt the disappearance of the London taxicab (TIME, April 20), the heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping...
Londoners learned with a start last week that its beloved taxicab may be riding its last crooked mile. London now has only 5,400 taxis, and nearly 40% of them are at least ten years old, a parliamentary committee found. Furthermore, cab owners are losing about .78 pence a mile, and higher rates would not help, since the last increase brought a commensurate drop in fares. The only company now making cabs (Austin) is down to five orders a week and ready to halt production unless orders increase...
...Under present economic and fiscal conditions," reported the committee, "the decline ... is likely to continue until there ceases to be an effective taxicab service in London...