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Sailors paddled life rafts around, picking up shipmates and shouting: "Taxi, taxi." Almost all the more than 2,000 crew were saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Fightingest Ship | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Boys Will Be Boys | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save the Tires | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bone & Muscle Man | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...pastors, six Japanese consuls, 907 Japanese civilians, seven housewives, three waitresses, two newsboys, two taxi drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Said | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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