Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking their ethics from their customers (jalopy dealers care chiefly for looks and price) some retreaders had used inferior rubber, put it on with substandard equipment. Yet they always had an important economic function, too. Fleet owners, taxi and trucking companies know that retreads cost only half as much as new tires (they use only 40% as much rubber) and give 75-80% as much wear. Moreover, a good tire may be renewed more than once. Fleet business had made a few retread concerns profitable long before the war. But war means a boom for all 4,500 of them...
...high point of suspense. The Wing Commander stands in a trailer hauled onto the flying field. From its roof projects a small glass dome. The Wing, equipped with headphones and mouthpiece, peers through the glass, dispatching his squadron: "Hello, C for Charlie [name of the plane ]. You may taxi up and take off." C for Charlie trundles with a roar into the night. Then: "Hello, control. C for Charlie airborne 19:35 [7:35 p.m.]." On the raid, camera and sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew of six. Theirs is an ominous journey-through...
Last year theaters closed at seven, so that bomb-wary patrons might hurry to inadequate shelters. Taxi drivers received half-crown tips for venturing out in the blitz. Patrons in bathrobes slumped about the lounges of swank hotels. Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast. The Zoo's lone emu shuddered when the ack-acks whammed...
Snowball claims that he is "of the old school." Colonel Apted and Max Keezer were his contemporaries. The only ones left are Jimmy O'Brien (Janitor of Claverly) and Nappy, the taxi driver. But he still overflows with biblical quotations, preaches powerful sermons against race discrimination while picking up clothes to press, mixes his famous "Green Dragon" punch, manages the "Boston Tigers," and is private caretaker, weather-discusser, and day-starter for Professor Copeland. His main ambition is to be a Cabinet Minister; his main contention that "you can always wake a Harvard man with music...
...general rule, most of the Scholars find some kind of a job during the summer. One has worked as a surveyor's assistant, park caretaker, taxi driver; other occupations include laborer in a bicycle manufacturing company, in an electric plant that manufactures are welders, orderly in a hospital, and technician in a medical research laboratory...