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Word: taxis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Stralla boasted that his boat was safe, his games honest, his service perfection. For 25? you could ride out in a water taxi and gamble 24 hours per day (the return trip was free). He advertised in Los Angeles newspapers and with skywriting. Customers swarmed out to him this season by thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...principals. Cinemactors Cagney and Raft, the screen's two deadliest Ruffie MacTuffies, have been friends ever since they began their careers as vaudeville hoofers in Manhattan in the 205. Cagney was responsible for one of Raft's earliest cinema parts, a dancing bit in Cagney's Taxi. Their appropriate reunion, also celebrating their return to the gangster movies where they belong, is a fierce slugfest in handcuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan a cinemaddict stumbled drowsily into a taxi, mumbled "Juarez," took 40 winks. When he woke, Driver William Lysaght was tooling through Philadelphia, hell-bent for Juarez, Mexico. The sleeper's expenses: taxi fare: $40.35; two useless theatre tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Local 381 of the Taxicab Drivers of America struck a week ago last Friday against the Yellow Cab Company in order to get "a family wage of a mere $15 for a 10 hour day." The Union under President Stephen A. Dunlevy charges that President Magann of the taxi company makes enough profit out of the company after paying his 90 drivers $12.60 a week to run a stable of racing horses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Picket for Yellow Cab Drivers In Struggle for $15 Week | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

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