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...operate taxis to be sure of a market in Manhattan, finally began withdrawing in 1934 after it had to repossess two big fleets at a loss of $1,000,000. Next year it sold its Manhattan operating company (Terminal) at another $733,000 loss. Soon Checker Cab Manufacturing Co. was left the only important manufacturer in the field. But even Checker, with a virtual monopoly on production, had dizzy ups & downs...
...Detroit's tough East Side several years ago. Citizens thereabouts don't like cops. One night six men gave him clubs up an alley. Later three men slugged him from behind; later still, a tough cabbie lead-hosed him when he poked his face in the cab...
...next night, an eastbound five-car passenger train plunged off the Pennsylvania main-line track along the Ohio River, near Baden, Pa. The locomotive toppled over on its side. Coal from the tender avalanched into the cab, buried the engineer. Coaches full of shocked and tumbled people rolled into the river...
...369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...
After 17 months of safe operation, U. S. airlines had had their sixth crash-the fifth fatal accident in six months. (It was Eastern's second in eleven years of crack operation.) In that time death on airliners had taken 54 men & women. To Atlanta hurried CAB's crash experts to try to figure out what had happened. To start with, at least, they had a baffler. Trip 21 had gone down while on the beam, headed just where she should have headed. Experienced Pilot Perry apparently had started the same maneuver that brought in two other airliners...