Word: taximen
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...novelty; for many Europeans, they already are part of the regular round of life. Over the past month or so, six European countries-Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy and just this week, Denmark -have flatly forbidden all Sunday driving, except for cars owned by diplomats, doctors, taximen and a very few others...
Most flights are quite expensive−largely because taxi outfits have neither federal subsidies nor fare regulation. Taximen usually charge 250 a mile or $35 an hour for the hire of single-engine planes, 400 to 700 a mile or $75 to $120 per hour of flying time for twin-engine models. For busy men, the time saved makes the cost worthwhile. Fully one-fifth of the passengers on Jacksonville's Gateway Aviation are lawyers, who for $85 each can zip 170 miles to Tallahassee, the state capital, and back in 2 hr. 10 min. v. an eight-hour...
...Kennedy Airport. The trip costs $14.50 and takes only 50 min. instead of the three hours by car. Such regular commuter flights have become important sources of traffic for the major carriers. United Air Lines recently began reserving seats on connecting air taxis for its customers, and taximen would like the airlines to sell tickets...
...arable. Dirt is so precious that graves are limited to two square feet (cremation is almost universal in Japan). Factories, and the machines in them, are in advanced obsolescence. There are not enough jobs, though many tasks are featherbedded to employ two craftsmen, four janitors or two taximen where one would do. Costs and wages have gone up so much that Japan is no longer able to undersell everyone else in the world market. Eager British, German and other traders have invaded old Japanese markets. Some of the old customers-Indonesia, Burma, the Philippines-are still too mindful of Japanese...
...smoke-filled attic of London's trade-union building near Marylebone Station, 70 of the city's 6,000 taximen solemnly resolved that what cabbies needed was their own M.P.-someone in the House of Commons to get them : 1 ) a taxi transport board; 2) "every man his own cab." Cried Alf Wheeler of Hornsey, hoarsely: "Give us a bit of the democracy we ruddy cabbies 'ave braved the blackout...