Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portland, Ore., for their part, have a special unit to bust fencing operations in hopes that burglaries will drop because the swag is harder to get rid of. The rate did indeed drop 16% in the past two years. In New York City, policemen now operate the third largest taxi fleet?some 200 vehicles. It seems taxis make excellent camouflage for stakeouts and street patrol and were involved in half of all arrests made in undercover operations...
...members started distributing a pamphlet with a skull on the cover and the title: "Welcome to Fear City." Inside were morbidly detailed instructions on how to avoid crime and other hazards in New York: "Do not walk. If you must leave your hotel after 6 p.m., summon a radio taxi by telephone or ask the hotel doorman to call a taxi while you remain in the hotel lobby ... Avoid public transportation. You should not ever ride the subway for any reason whatsoever." Calling the pamphlet a "new low in irresponsibility," Beame obtained a court order to prevent its distribution...
...There was a two-day strike at heavy-industry plants in Córdoba; when demonstrations were banned by the authorities acting under state-of-siege powers, three policemen were gunned down at a power station just outside the city. In Buenos Aires, police broke up a demonstration by taxi drivers outside Government House; the riderless drivers want a supply of cheap gasoline set aside so they can lower their fares and win back passengers...
...virtually everything. This is what makes The Twenties not only a memoir but the remarkable, jagged portrait of an era. Vaudeville, Charles Lindbergh, the significance of D.H. Lawrence's small head, lists of slang, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, what it felt like to take a fast taxi ride through Manhattan while drunk, other people's family histories, the woman who kept a pet alligator in her bathtub and hypnotized it until it was limp -all are coolly, sometimes gravely considered...
Mayor Walter J. Sullivan asked that the taxi drivers confer with city traffic officials to come up with some workable proposals for the information center...