Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior varsity also provides a double benefit for Munro. It gives experience to a sizeable taxi squad, which he can call upon when injuries strike as they did in last Saturday's Cornell game. Second, it provides a convenient opponent that the varsity can scrimmage during the week...
...interest in Radcliffe began when she met Helen Keller at a dinner party. They shared a taxi home and had a long argument about Shakespeare's heroines; thereafter they were close friends...
...Dally's lover is a healthy clod, her taxi-driver husband (Ralph Meeker) is a wounded, raging animal who empties bottles and smashes chairs- because it one accepts Playwright Hanley's shaky psychologizing, he let his three-year-old son drown years before. Mrs. Dally tries to put a think-tank in this poor tiger but he is properly mystified by a wifely oracle who is as daft as she is Delphic: "I think a lot of people could be great people...
Most flights are quite expensive−largely because taxi outfits have neither federal subsidies nor fare regulation. Taximen usually charge 250 a mile or $35 an hour for the hire of single-engine planes, 400 to 700 a mile or $75 to $120 per hour of flying time for twin-engine models. For busy men, the time saved makes the cost worthwhile. Fully one-fifth of the passengers on Jacksonville's Gateway Aviation are lawyers, who for $85 each can zip 170 miles to Tallahassee, the state capital, and back in 2 hr. 10 min. v. an eight-hour...
Feeding on Customers. Helicopters, costly to buy and operate, constitute only a tiny fraction of the nation's 9,000-plane taxi fleet. Taxi companies range from one-man, one-plane outfits to Detroit's 28-plane Tag Airlines, which has 100 employees and takes in $1,000,000 a year. Typical of the type is nine-plane Pilgrim Airlines, which has tripled its business in five years (to 15,000 passengers a year) by offering six scheduled flights a day from New London, Conn., to New York's Kennedy Airport. The trip costs $14.50 and takes...