Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trend. In Boston, a taxi driver applied for a license to operate horse-drawn hacks and sleighs...
Summarized the Washington Post, in the guise of a taxi driver's opinion: "As I get it they want room for more clerks to do the work the clerks they have got ain't doing...
...plants, air-guarded a reservoir near Youngstown. CAP enrollments had reached 15,000, were coming in at the rate of 800 a day. A "wing commander" had been appointed in every State. CAP said it could use some 100,000 non-flying recruits: as ground crews, as drivers to taxi Army pilots from railroad stations to airports, in humdrum but necessary office work...
...wheedled from the U.S. against the eventual drive for oil; the hoarding of young men-hardened to horror on the cold plains of Manchukuo and in the hot valley of the Yangtze. For the sake of the chips there had been abnegation: less rice, less fish, less charcoal, no taxi rides, a minimum of sake, stinting on geishas, wood-pulp clothes...
...last week. All the gold in Fort Knox (some $14,500,000,000) could not bring enough rubber from the Jap-infested Far East to satisfy the U.S. demand (50,000 tons a month). Price Boss Leon Henderson ruled that the nation's "average" motorists-including traveling salesmen, taxi drivers, and isolated countrysiders without other means of transportation-may not buy new tires. Only exemptions: medicos and their aides, ambulances, fire fighters, police services, garbage trucks, mail trucks, public busses carrying at least ten persons, ice-&-fuel delivery, farm tractors, industrial, mining and construction equipment...