Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...
...pastors, six Japanese consuls, 907 Japanese civilians, seven housewives, three waitresses, two newsboys, two taxi drivers...
Biggest hitch is personnel-good pilots and mechanics are harder to find than smooth airfields in Africa. But airline operators expect to squeak through the pilot shortage by giving jobs to 1) independent air taxi operators; 2) airmen from the Civil Air Patrol; 3) newly trained men. For more mechanics the airlines have turned to a brand-new mass training technique. In Kansas City, T.W.A. is training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system...
...greatest escapade of Daudet's career, a milestone in Third Republic high jinks, sprang from tragedy. In 1924 his 14-year-old son, Philippe, was found dead in a taxi. Police pronounced it suicide. Daudet screamed that the police had murdered the boy in retaliation for his father's Royalist disturbances. Even under France's liberal libel laws, Daudet was convicted of libeling both the police and taxi driver, sentenced to six months imprisonment. But the time of serving the sentence was politely left up to Daudet...
...There will be makeshifts and stunts. Playgoers will share their cars and form taxi groups. One producer has acquired a hay wagon. Marengo, Ill. dolled up in Gay-Nineties style, drove to the play in buggies...