Word: taxicabs
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Then he went in a taxicab to St. Luke's Hospital for a week's rest. The hospital took him in free because in his better days he had helped it with generous gifts...
...great industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate the lot of the drivers, sought only to make trouble for the cab operating companies. Now is the time to he as careful to preserve the things that are good -- the family, religions, the economic inequality, individual liberty and individual initiation...
Beaming Insull walked out and haled a taxicab. Two Turkish policemen leaped in after him, and his face fell. They drove up a back street to a little fifth-rate hotel, got him a shabby room. Ignorant of what it was all about Insull raged and despaired. He sat down on his bed. "I am all alone," he said. "I am a victim of fate." He began to weep...
Properties: A taxicab, a movie star, another movie star of the opposite...
Twelve thousand Paris taxicab drivers were striking against a two-franc (12½?) additional tax on gasoline. They claimed that the companies from whom they rent their cabs ought to pay the tax. Once on strike, they added social insurance and better working conditions to their demands. To 100 non-strikers they showed scant mercy when they laid hands on them...