Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kelly, according to the taxi-driver, who for reasons of his own having to do with the police, preferred to remain anonymous, refused the tendered manifesto, and nothing happened for a few minutes. "Then," he said, "another traffic cop passed by, and Cohen offered him one of his sheets. The cop took it, and about twenty minutes later the Sergeant came up from the station and hauled in both Cohen and his batch of papers...
Transportation, however, the city does not lack. It has many routes and uses them. Universal Air Lines carries passengers between Cleveland and Chicago, runs a taxi and hopping service at the Cleveland airport, has an aviation school there. Continental Air Lines, Universal subsidiary, operates a mail and passenger line between Cleveland and Louisville, by way of Akron, Columbus, Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati. Colonial Western Air Lines, Universal affiliate through Aviation Corp., flies mail and occasionally passengers by way of Buffalo to Albany, where connections are made with the Canadian Colonial Airways New York-Montreal line. Thompson Aeronautical Corp. carries passengers...
Several airplane sales agencies conduct schools, taxi services or hops: U. S. Air Lines, Dungan Airways, Cleveland Institute of Aviation, Skyways, Stewart Aircraft Corp., Floyd J. Logan Aviation Co., Curtiss Flying Service (now being...
...Orleans streets rattled and clanked hundreds of nondescript "taxicabs" ready to carry for 10? a public out of sympathy with the trolley company. A New Orleans ordinance provides that all such conveyances must first post a $5,000 indemnity bond, a requirement which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing the public back to the empty trolleys, of weakening the effect of the strike...
Promptly the police began to enforce the taxi ordinance, arrested 40 drivers without bond. Taximen, at the strikers' instigation, commenced to circumvent the ordinance by posting "Free Ride" stickers on their cars, accepting voluntary "contributions" from passengers. Public Service, Inc. met this move by hiring persons to ride the free taxis, to contribute nothing, to "break down the service...