Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pipe fitters and carpenters, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. has been importing European employees through Canada. Kaynar Manufacturing Co. of Fullerton, Calif., is seeking to bring in Japanese workers to meet its demand for machine-tool operators. New York City social-service agencies have begun referring welfare recipients to taxi companies, whose shortage of 2,500 drivers has aggravated the chronic scarcity of cabs on city streets. Brokerage houses offer as much as $20,000 for senior clerks to help cope with Wall Street's paper pileup...
...change. "Miss," he began, "could you-" She let him have it with her G-G31 tear-gas device, a $24.95 gun that enfolds its target in a 12-ft. by 6-ft. cloud of tear gas and dye. Blinded, reeling, John staggered off down the street and hailed a taxi...
...victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having left her handbag, containing copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing and distributing false fabrication defaming the Soviet state and social structure." It took the court only five hours to find her guilty and sen tence her to one year in a labor camp...
Helping to build a black economic structure in the ghetto, Freedom Industries buys most services from black businessmen. The company uses only Paradise Cab, a taxi cab company recently organized by blacks in Roxbury, and bought a full year's advertising space in a black newspaper in advance to give the paper the capital necessary to begin printing...
...Band. He was persuasive as a busker too. Starting out with just a guitar, he gained attention by becoming a one-man band, simultaneously playing a kazoo, tambourine and drum, in addition to the guitar. "He really busked in style," says one admirer. "He used to arrive in a taxi and go home afterward the same way." At his peak, Partridge made $300 a week...