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Last week the Taxicab Bureau, Inc. of New York reported that Manhattan cab drivers were no longer netting the $34 a day they need to pay for their cabs. Los Angeles' Yellow Cab Co., in the twelve months ended in July, rang up 63,547,-570 fare-miles, 9% more than in the preceding twelve-month period, but lost money because of an 8½% rise in costs...
...most cities, the cab companies are pressing for an average boost of 30% in fares. Several cities are about ready to grant the increases. But the prospect of higher fares poses a new worry: how many of the "marginal" customers (i.e., those who consider cabs a luxury) will continue to use them...
...tapped out the news. City rooms broke into a well-ordered uproar. Flagged by telephone, the reporters at Babe Ruth's hospital hustled over to the consulate in a taxicab. They almost missed their editions: all four had just been cleaned out in a poker game, and the cab driver refused to let them out until they had ransacked their pockets for enough nickels & dimes...
Intensely practical, Loewy likes beauty for its own sake but always combines it with the functional. While styling the Pennsylvania Railroad's sleek new locomotives, Loewy took a long ride in the cab of a locomotive. When he got back, he had one recommendation that led all the rest: he suggested a toilet...
That was why CAB last week ordered Wildcatter Weiss to suspend all operations, declared it would register no additional wildcat lines, ordered an investigation into all wildcat "practices and activities." Weiss, whose airline faces a death sentence if the CAB order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day stay of execution. Without blocking a metaphor, he argued that the airlines were angry because wildcatters had "pulled the ground out from under them," added that he was "not going to be shouted out of business by [an] octopus...