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Last fortnight Yellow Taxi Corp., New York (Regent 1000), largest, oldest (1921) in New York City, went to court to defend its 1,250 cabs. Yellow complained that General Motors Corp, had coerced railroad and steamship lines into awarding concessions to G. M.'s subsidiary, Terminal Cab Corp. Yellow obtained from Supreme Court Justice Richard P. Lydon a temporary injunction to bar Terminal Cab from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that...
Terminal Cab, incorporated January 1930, buys from General Motors Truck Corp. Buyer and seller alike are subsidiaries of Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...
...longer does Yellow Taxi Corp. buy its cabs from General Motors Truck Corp., which once supplied all Yellows. It buys from Checker, gradually disposing of its old General Motors cabs to independents. There are some 9,000 Checker cabs on New York streets, but Checker does not operate its own cabs. Second largest non-operating producer is Paramount, with over 2,000 cabs. A new company called Parfour Corp., organized by William May, William Day and Harry Junker, has bought from Paramount 85 sleek cream-colored cabs with chocolate trim, calling itself Fresh Air Taxi, in honor of Amos...
Hero Chester Tattersall, unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...