Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn, home of Dodgerism, target of radio comedians,* and a maze to Manhattan taxi drivers, is also a city of unsubmissive businessmen. In 1935 Brooklyn's four poultry-marketing Schechter brothers defied the National Recovery Administration, and the Supreme Court threw NRA out in the famed "sick chicken" case. Last week a Brooklyn shipbuilder, Bernard A. Moran, became the first U.S. employer to challenge the War Labor Board's powers under the new Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike...
...Capetown a woman who had given birth to a baby two hours before pushed her doctor aside and rode by taxi to vote. In Durban another woman arrived by ambulance, was carried on a stretcher into the polling hall. In Smuts's own constituency, Standerton, a septuagenarian Scot, recovering from a heart attack, insisted on voting for Smuts, collapsed and died before he could make his cross...
Then the many trucks took all the crews out to the planes, which were dispersed for acres. Shortly before taxi time the crews climbed aboard and the roar began which was the roar of numbers, and a dust cloud rose up which seemed to be the dust of a multitude on the desert...
Checked In. In Howard, R.I., Joseph H. Fontaine rolled up to the gate of the state prison in a taxi, rang the bell, in formed the guard, "I've just been on a 36-hour leave...
...commercial; the expert is typing his views of elastic defense; and there sit the bored technicians behind the dials, keeping the pitch of sound in hand, as it goes on the wires to a hundred cities and off the antennae to a hundred million ears. It blats in the taxi, it roars over the public-address system, it speaks in the mess hall, in the midnight coffee stand; and it flops against the screen door, freshly folded, in the early morning...