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Word: taxies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced that it will continue to carry passengers to Shannon, Eire, for $247. Passengers must find their own way from Shannon, near Dublin, to London (they could go by plane twice a week if they were lucky, or by taxi, bus, boat and train-a trip which sometimes takes two days). Twice a week, Pan Am will fly all the way to London but has not yet set the fare. Furthermore, said Pan Am, it will soon start flying to France at fares comparable to the $275 rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Touchdown for Britain? | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Full House. In Hayward, Calif., Harold Sexton was arrested for overcrowding his taxi. His payload: 18 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Angry crowds gathered in Dalhousie Square, shouted "Jai Hind!" ("Victory to India"), the battle cry of India's nationalists. They lay across railway tracks to stop trains, persuaded bus, tram, taxi and ricksha drivers to join them, forced shops to close down. They put up road blocks, set afire British and U.S. military vehicles, stoned Tommies and G.I.s, tossed bricks and a hand grenade into the Thanksgiving dance of the American Officers' Club at Karnani Estates. Adding to the city's chaos was a municipal workers' strike (for more wages) which threatened the water supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jai Hind! | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...working night, he and his B.W. (for beautiful wife) get home about 4 a.m. By dawn the doorman of his apartment hotel hails a passing taxi so that Wilson's column can make its 7 a.m. deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Saloon Editor | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...winning numbers, which still correspond to animals, were based on the national lottery's winning tickets, the amount gambled was a hot $500,000. When the nine and two came up, 500 scrupulously honest bicho bankers started paying off on the bear (92) to thousands of businessmen, taxi drivers and maids all over the country who had bet anything from half-a-cent to $250. In Pernambuco, where Russian sympathizers had played the bear, the winnings were heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Jogo do Bicho | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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