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Next day, snaking through the grandest mountain scenery in North America, the King and Queen enjoyed another royal prerogative, that of riding in the cab of the lead locomotive of the train's snorting "triple-header." Ahead lay three days of full-dress dignity in Vancouver and Victoria, before the swing back to the East for their visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isn't It Wonderful? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...just a strong link in the Broadway chain, the Cotton Club doops a lot of colored hotcha and horseplay. Though much of the old animal verve of Harlem has given way to routine Broadway showmanship, the show has winning headliners in Tapster Bill Robinson (see col. j) and Crooner Cab Galloway; a pleasant surprise in Hymn Swinger Sister Tharpe; plenty of jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Following five weeks of continuous picketing, the Yellow Cab strikers yesterday won most of their points before the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation. All men will return to work today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELP FROM STUDENTS WINS CABBIES' STRIKE | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

Adopting new tactics in their three-week-old walkout against the Cambridge Yellow Cab Company, strikers are now organizing a corps of student pickets who "picket by telephone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets Adopt Unique Tactics in Taxi Strike; Use Phone to Urge Cab Boycott | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...when the airline business suddenly looked good, Partner John D. Hertz (Yellow Cab Co.) of Lehman Bros, joined with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to purchase 81,204 shares of T. W. A. from General Motors at some $14.50 a share. This 13% interest gave them operating control. Next year T. W. A. made $205,000 and its stockclimbed to $27.50. But in 1937 T.W.A. lost $959,000, in 1938 $773,000. Its stock dropped to $4, was last week at $8 when Lehman Bros, announced with an audible sigh of relief that it had sold out to Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Sold to the Operators | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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