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Ella Randolph soon began to scream and succeeded after several minutes in attracting the attention of a crowd of taxi drivers lined up at the curb below. Obeying her instructions, these piled the cushions from their cars directly under the inverted head of Horace Poor. Policemen visited a nearby hotel whence they secured a blanket; this they stretched under Horace Poor, above the pillows and cushions. With a tremulous cry, Nurse Randolph released her banker; he sped down for an instant, plunged through the blanket and lay, panting and lolling, on the cushions...
...Taxi: To run an airplane over the ground, or a seaplane on the surface of the water, under its own power...
...Lear Black* famed as the U. S. businessman who has taxied by air the largest number of miles, last fortnight gave up temporarily his most extensive taxi-tour. With one valet, two Dutch pilots and a sturdy triple-engined Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter...
Nothing was done to the taxi driver...
...Drive me to Buckingham Palace," said H.R.H. Prince George, youngest son of the King-Emperor, to a taxi chauffeur...