Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prototype can seat 64, a tremendous advantage over its STOL and V/STOL rivals for interurban hops. The closest runner-up, Germany's Dornier Skyservant, seats only twelve; other STOL-type planes that have begun to enter the U.S. air-taxi/commuter business, like Canada's De Havilland Otter and the Helio Courier, have only a fraction of McDonnell Douglas' payload. Fully loaded, the plane can cruise at 250 m.p.h., land at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h. on a 500-ft. runway; it can take off within 1,000 ft. (one-seventh the length of La Guardia...
...importing London taxi cabs and selling them to people with $1800 on their hands or businesses like banks. Now why didn't you think of that...
Possibly because you didn't have the money to go to England last summer. Or even if you did have enough money to go to England last summer you didn't have enough money left to take a taxi? Or more likely because you really aren't imaginative? If you were, you wouldn't be around this place...
...think the yellowy, ornamented, American cabs are hideous," Katz says, "a cab ride in England is still a respectable and enjoyable experience. The taxi is a pleasure to ride in, and the English cabbie is still very much the gentleman." Katz, a Cornell senior in engineering, is obviously interested in the quality of American life outside of the petty profit of a thousand dollars he's making on each...
Instead of buying motorcycles like many American students, Katz and another friend decided to invest in a London taxi which, with its roomy interior and relatively low price, would be ideal for camping. At the end of his trip, he decided to ship the cab home. "As I figured I could either sell it or use it for transportation for the rock band I manage during the winter at Cornell," Katz recalls...