Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bush Taxi. Ontario-born John McNiven now lives in Yellowknife, on the desolate northern shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there...
...wealth and power. "Henry bloody Ford," said a Glaswegian. "I am a cheap Ford salesman and Ford's a gentleman. He captured the world. Head of the atomic energy he is too. Mon! He's a fine chap." But Socialist conservatism also spoke. Said a taxi driver: "No, we can't afford Henry Ford today. It's a good thing all that big business is finished over here...
...Harvard men? They're a bunch of cheapskates!" say an overwhelming number of waitresses, taxi-drivers, barbers, and shoe-shine boys who walk away empty-handed after serving members of the University...
...pickings were better before and during the war, almost all agreed. Now, they said, the good tipper is the exception. "I've been driving a back around the Square for almost twenty years," one veteran taxi-driver reported. "Before, the war, all the boys were generous with their tips. Now you either get little or nuthin...
Salute to Valor. To millions of Mexicans the President's gesture was an amazing salute to Mexican pride and Mexican valor.† Newspapers ran black with the news. Men & women shouted it on the streets, stopped U.S. citizens to retell the story. A taxi driver named Juan Gomez said: "I even cry when I hear this. To think that the most powerful man in the world would come and apologize." Many a man of wealth and influence agreed. Said Engineer Ramon Ayala: "One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by one man in one minute. That...