Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the ride. He did odd jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit's Fox Theater orchestra through a performance of Ravel's Bolero before...
TIME Correspondent Fred Klein literally felt the veterans' mood: "A crowd of veterans milled around my taxi, swung it around and deposited the front wheels on the sidewalk. Their leader pulled me out and seated me gently on the pavement...
...these fine-looking people?" asked the porteno taxi driver, staring at the broad, blond faces. He was told that they were bound for Paraguay's Chaco. "Ah, the poor ones," sighed the man from the city's pavements...
...Flyer who runs an aviation taxi service around the world...
Starting from there, police and the FBI moved fast. Two clues turned up: I) the burnt stock of a shotgun, jammed in the flue of a Yellow Cab office in Greenville; 2) blood-stained seat cushions from a taxi. Drivers were rounded up, began to talk, implicated still more...