Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish I could describe a raid to you the way it feels. . . . You taxi out for takeoff. In a few minutes you are in the air and taking your position in the formation. There is not much conversation on the way. . . . You know the time of arrival at the target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here...
...September 1941 Stokes heard that Prescott Dennett, chief of the "Islands for War Debts Committee," had received a summons to appear before the District of Columbia grand jury. Stokes grabbed a taxi, scooted for Dennett's office, there watched a truck being loaded with mailbags. He followed while some of the bags were delivered to the America First Committee headquarters, others to the offices of isolationist Republican Congressman "Ham" Fish. When he phoned Fish's office and got a flat denial that any of the mailbags were there, Stokes wangled his way into Fish's locker room...
...broadcast went on; so did the party. Members had planned to make Rationer Henderson ride a streetcar to the party, stand waiting at two transfer points; they no longer had the heart and called a taxi instead. To most of Local Board 234.3 their skits now sounded a little flat. But if the ex-Price Boss was not having a fine time he never once...
...source for bootleggers, OPA has just about dried up the stolen-coupon pool. OPA hopes that the new requirements for ODT approval of truck and taxi mileage will undercut the other big source - commercial operators who get more than they really need, "lose" ration books etc. Boot leg coupons are usually sold (for 3-5? a gallon) to gas stations which pass the gas on to unwitting joyriders as a "favor" (at a 100-200% markup over cost...
Street of Chance (Paramount) is a twisted thoroughfare indeed for amnesic Burgess Meredith. Soon after a blow on the head knocks him into realizing that there has been a total blank in his life, a terrifying stranger (Sheldon Leonard) rushes after his taxi, hammers maniacally on the window. A tough blonde (Claire Trevor) has proudly saved the newsclips about the murder Meredith learns he is being hounded for. In a Long Island mansion, with the help of a paralytic old lady (Adeline De Walt Reynolds), he at last gets the heat turned on the real culprit...