Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punished taxi murderers, took the youth off the streets, organized sea voyages for workers...
...Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take her to the doctor. When criticized for not ordering a taxi in such an emergency, Liu, true to his doctrinaire code, coldly replied that it might have drawn the attention of the police and endangered the party operation...
...group of merchants, lawyers and real estate wizards, known as the "Bay Street Pirates" to Nassau taxi drivers, began the boom nine years ago. They spread the word that these British crown-colony islands have no income taxes, no personal property taxes, no real estate taxes, no capital gains taxes, trifling inheritance taxes. Now, says Attorney Stafford Sands, leading Bay Streeter, "there's a definite feeling of yeastiness about the whole American investment picture...
...boys run the politics as well as the boom. But even in the sparsely populated (116,530) Bahamas, the dreams that drove colonials to greater measures of self-government elsewhere in the old British Empire are stirring. Last year, at the beginning of the winter season, Nassau's taxi drivers, bus boys, power-plant workers and construction workers walked out on strike (TIME, Jan. 27, 1958). Members of the Progressive Liberal Party, they struck mostly for fairer polling laws, and they won a few concessions; e.g., men of property, who formerly could vote in every constituency where they owned...
...particular forms of tax is that the products and services taxed are basically luxuries; thus, these increases will "soak the rich" without hurting the poor. While the idea involved may be quite noble, the facts of the case do not jibe with the principle. To many New Yorkers, neither taxi rides nor restaurant meals are luxuries; and, as the cabdrivers have pointed out, the taxi tax penalizes one segment of the population for the benefit of another, no more deserving group...