Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drivers hate the damn thing," said Richard W. Fligg of the Harvard Taxi Company, commenting on the Square's new rotary traffic system. "Companies have lost their stands in front of Waldorf's, the Harvard Trust Company, and Howard Johnson's. Brattle Cab has been pushed clear back to Church Street...
Fred W. Neal of the Ambassador Taxi Company disclosed that the Ambassador, Harvard, and Brattle companies, along with many independents, have submitted formal complaints to the city about the situation...
Some men predicted inevitable war. Said an Istanbul taxi driver: "As long as only the Americans had The Bomb, the Russians were afraid to make war. Now they won't hesitate...
Just before the plane took off from Quebec City, an excited woman had arrived at the field by taxi. She had a package which was suspiciously overweight for its size, but with the plane already warming up, the clerk rushed it aboard. The package was addressed to a Mr. Larouche at Baie Comeau. Mr. Larouche, it turned out, did not exist...
Inquiry then turned to the unidentified shipper. The taxi driver who had brought her to the airport recalled that she had asked him to drive carefully, saying: "These aren't eggs I'm carrying." Investigators soon discovered that she was Mrs. Marie Pitre, a 41-year-old Quebec City housewife who had had notes endorsed by Albert Guay. One day last week Mrs. Pitre, told by Guay that the police were shadowing her, took an overdose of sleeping tablets, was rushed to the hospital. There, as she began to recover, she admitted that she had shipped the mysterious...