Word: taxicabs
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...caps and turned-up coat collars surged noisily down a street strangely empty of cars. A taxicab wheeled into sight. The mob swept around it, forced out the passenger, blacked the driver's eyes. The tires were ice-picked, the windows smashed and the car rolled over on its side. That happened last week on Manhattan's Broadway and it also happened on Paris' Place de la Concorde...
...that her husband, famed Wall Street Speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore, had been missing since midafternoon. He had started on a walk after luncheon, failed to telephone her hourly as was his custom, missed a dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar (see cut). His story: he had spent the night in a hotel, had awakened with...
...face. The Senator staggered back groggily, brought up against the washbasins. Blood streamed down his face from a cut over his left eye. Attendants and friends put him back on his feet, iced his eye, buttoned him up, ushered him from the club. He was put into a taxicab, sent back to his Manhattan hotel where a house physician patched...
Died. Paul Charles L'Amoreaux, 47, president of Parmelee Transportation Co.; of angina pectoris; in Manhattan. An attorney, in 1922 he arranged the merger of Chicago's Checker, Yellow and Parmelee taxicab companies. Last year he became president of Parmelee, vigorously advo- cated municipal control of New York City's swarming cabs...
Judge Buffington dismissed all this, ruled that a chartered plane is as much a common carrier as a regularly scheduled plane, a railroad train or a taxicab. He also denied to all common carriers the right to limit or dodge responsibility for passengers' death or injury in accidents. Lawyers took this to mean that private owners of planes transporting paying passengers are as liable as air transport companies...