Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finish. The cabbie claimed it had taken Sheridan 14 minutes to bid a lady friend goodby; Sheridan clocked himself at approximately three minutes. While the Hacker's Board of Review deliberated the matter, a Philadelphia "Democratic Fellowship Club" sent Sheridan 20? "in sympathy . . . and [to] save Strickland, the taxi driver, from losing his license." The Board of Review's finding: the cabbie had overcharged, whether Sheridan had taken 14 minutes or not. Penalty: ten-day suspension of his license...
...Loomis boys have taken over taxi drivers' jobs...
...drive to conserve older cars and tires increased. San Francisco's Yellow Cab Co. ran big ads in the newspapers urging "that you do not use a Yellow cab." ODT warned that taxi cruising must stop. Franklin Roosevelt ordered all U.S. Government departments to reduce their use of automobiles "substantially...
Nicely pointed sequence: Case-hardened Saboteur Lloyd, taxi-bound for evil doings at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, observes the foundered Normandie at her Hudson River pier, indulges in a slow, sly, satisfied smile as the wounded liner passes from view...
...Good," said the taxi driver. "Then my two sons will enlist tomorrow...