Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Familiar to Manhattanites, cherished by them, is the bouncing, bumping, jolting but economical 15 & 5 taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...
Insulted by this prospect were taxi-minded Manhattanites. Insulted and injured were Manhattan taxi men. For, said they, the new tax was unfairly proportioned. True, last month's passage of the New York state gasoline tax (2? per gallon, effective May 1) completed the role of 48 U. S. gas-taxing states. But the private car uses about 550 gallons of gasoline a year. The taxi uses about 7,565 gallons. Inasmuch as the New York law makes no distinction between gas taxes for taxicabs and for private cars, the taxi men, with 3% of New York City automobiles...
...Taxi companies estimated that the gas tax has increased operating expenses per cab by 40?a day. Additional insurance rates have produced a 50? a day increase. A taxi's daily intake is about $23, its net about $4. According to A. S. Freed, head of Paramount Cab Mfg. Co., the threatened 30? a mile rate (well within the legal limit of 40? would barely compensate for added costs of doing business...
Sirs: Re: "Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
...Chicago, a gunman last week held up Stenographer Mary Johnson, took her purse, coat, beads, dress. Up rattled a taxi. Disrobed, dismayed, Mary stepped in. Said the chivalric chauffeur: "I'm a stickup guy myself, dearie. See these two automatics? But you've had enough for one night-I'll take you home...