Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when it came time to go the reporters were told merely to report to a London address, were whisked on from there to embarkation points. LIFE'S Lincoln Barnett loaded his duffel into a taxi, told the driver to "Head on down Piccadilly," lest even his friends hear the address of the rendezvous. The New York Herald Tribune's William W. White shoved off without explanation, leaving a large, tweedy wardrobe in the apartment of bewildered friends. Chicago Daily Newsman William Stoneman, just returned to London from a long vacation, wired his boss abruptly: "Taking long vacation...
Sailors paddled life rafts around, picking up shipmates and shouting: "Taxi, taxi." Almost all the more than 2,000 crew were saved...
...suggested that in the future when pilots feel overwhelming desire to let loose their exuberance of spirit that they immediately land their airplanes in normal manner, taxi slowly to specified parking position, stop engine, climb out of cockpit and take cold bath...
Hardest hit by the new order are taxis. Better than one-third of them will stop clocking fares. In New York City, where reduced traffic has made a taxi speedway of most streets, the 11,700 cabs will be cut by at least 3,000, possibly more...
...pocket and earnestly examining them at odd moments on subways and in restaurants. At home he kept a hand pickled in glycerin and carbolic acid, studied it for weeks until putrefaction forced him to bury it in the garden to the horror of his Negro gardener. Once a taxi driver, aware of his interest in cadavers, appeared on his doorstep with a dismembered human leg that an unidentified medical student had left in his taxi...