Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms: $20 million from a tax on taxicab rides, $12.5 million from a one-cent increase in cigarette and cigar taxes, $13 million from a two per cent rise in the tax on restaurant meals. The cab drivers have protested loudly and threaten to raise their fares if the taxi tax goes through; the cigarette increase, coupled with a two-cent rise in the State tax, makes the combined State-City levy on a pack of cigarettes a whopping seven cents...
...grey eyes. "Ladies," he says, wagging his finger at them, "why do you drive such big cars? You don't need a monster to go to the drugstore for a package of hairpins. Think of the gas bills!" No audience is too small for him. Caught in a taxi in the middle of a St. Louis traffic jam, he lectured the captive driver: "Now if we all drove small cars, we'd have a lot less trouble like this." His parting tip as he abandoned the cab and sprinted off on foot: "Next time try a Rambler...
...Albert M. Greenfield, 71, resigned as chairman of Bankers Securities Corp. ($500 million annual sales from department stores, hotels, real estate and taxi-cabs), which he founded 31 years...
...stove, ate out of cans. He paid a marriage broker only $15 of the promised $50 fee for finding him a wife, on the theory that it might not work out. It didn't, not after she was extravagant enough on one occasion to squander $1 for a taxi ride home...
...rabble-rousing radicalism; nowadays we are almost used to seeing more actors in the auditorium than on the stage, but Mr. Odets exploited his gimmick skillfully, and it still works. The stage at Agassiz represents the speakers' platform at a union hall, and the audience are supposed to be taxi drivers at a strike meeting. The house is infiltrated with agents provocateurs, carefully drilled by Mark Mirsky to keep up a running fire of grumbles, taunts, and shouts, and to bring the audience into the play by putting the play almost into their laps; it is still an exciting moment...