Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters in Paris, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was telling one on himself. Spaak spends three days each week in Brussels. There recently he had to make a radio speech. His chauffeur was away, so he hailed a taxi. "The radio building," he ordered the driver. "Sorry, m'sieur," said the cabby, "I haven't the time to drive you. Premier Spaak speaks on the radio tonight, in a few minutes in fact, and like a loyal Socialist I'm going to listen." Glowing with pleasure at the words, Belgium's Premier nevertheless...
...campaign got under way, labor punched doorbells, manned sound-trucks, flooded the country with campaign literature. In Chicago alone, labor mustered nearly 10,000 volunteer workers. Many a worker in Democratic headquarters had his salary paid by labor. On Election Day labor provided free babysitters, free taxi service and piled up Democratic pluralities...
Jake Kramer and Dinny Pails, touring tennis pros, got off with minor bumps and scratches when their car skidded and rolled over twice near Gunnedah, New South Wales. They made it to their next scheduled exhibition match by taxi...
Extensive practice has been the keynote for the Crimson harriers this week, and Mikkola's makeshift taxi-service--an HAA laundry wagon and his own private car--has been running steadily transporting runners to and from practice grounds around Boston. "We can't go too much trouble if it means a chance of beating Yale," Mikkola asserts. "Twice in a row is too much," Mikkola adds. "I'd hate to see it happen a third time...
...loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size, might also make the pedestrian's lot a happier...