Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years and two conductors later, the symphony was in danger of collapse. It had played its repertory almost to death (the sound-effects man completely wore out his taxi horn on Gershwin's An American in Paris), and at some performances the concert hall all but emptied for good at intermission time. But the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos got the ear of General William M. Hoge, Commander...
While making the investment decisions and voting the shares, Cabot rarely sees a security. "We only see them," he says, "when a man comes in to give some." Even then, the donor is hustled over to the New England Trust Co.--perhaps by subway or taxi depending upon the size of the gift...
Black-marketeers covet it, taxi drivers, dance-hall hostesses and restaurants accept it, and even Communist agents collect it for their own devious purposes. In Japan and Korea, the next best thing to U.S. greenbacks is U.S. military scrip. Although in theory MFC (military payment certificates) can be used only in post exchanges, commissaries and other military establishments, and only by the military or civilian employees of the military, "G.I. money" is considered more valuable than the wobbly Japanese yen or the even wobblier Korean hwan...
Normalcy and fear. The danger to Hanoi was scarcely visible. The streets were still chockablock with cyclos (cycle taxis, 14? a ride). Shrimp and snail vendors crouched behind their tiny stalls clacking metal scissors-the noisy symbol of their trade. Almond-skinned girls in straw hats and pajamalike silk costumes strolled hand-in-hand to school, and at midnight there was the customary flood of drunken soldiers and giggling tarts as the taxi-dance joints closed down...
Among the spokes in Murchison's golden wheel today are 23 wholly-owned companies, including three chemical companies, four taxi and bus companies in Texas, and Chicago's Martha Washington candy company. He controls, in addition to American Mail Line, Delhi and Holt, Ohio's Diebold office-equipment company (60%), Chicago's Consumers construction-materials company (85%), a water company in Indianapolis and six Texas banks (including 100% control of Athens First National). Through Delhi, he has a big interest in Taylor Oil & Gas, and with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests...