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...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...
There is no real majority in the Andra Kammaren (Lower House) at Stockholm, any more than there is one in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris. But Swedes are naturally less prone to sudden topplings down of Governments than Frenchmen. The previous Cabinet (Conservative) of Admiral Arvid Lindman, who was forced out fortnight ago (TIME, June 9), had remained in office for 20 months although out of 230 deputies in the Andra Kammaren only 73 are Conservative...
...peace is menaced by Benito Mussolini, at least, like an honest rattlesnake, he jangles his sword (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Stalin acts without warning. At his sudden fiat, Trotsky (a Communist with a greater name than Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
...last moment Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, received a sudden mysterious message from President Hoover on the Rapidan...