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...thinks. They accept the German occupation "with as much resignation as the eruption of Vesuvius." They are overawed by Germany's military might. But once the Germans are being defeated, they will be ready to rise, he predicts. At night, when an Italian tries to hail a passing taxi (scarce in wartime), he shouts: "Libero? [Are you free?]" In the darkness come answers from people in the street...
...enough money to buy the San Francisco office building (original cost: $1,250,000) in which he started his business. Last year he branched into selling De Sotos on Long Island, upped his sales to about 4% of De Soto's entire output. Meanwhile he had tackled the taxi business...
...down payment. Manhattan's independent cabbies swear by him; until he started selling them brand-new cabs at $1,195 they had to pay nearly that much for castoffs from the big fleets. Last week Waters was sure his theory was right and that he had the taxi business licked: he started delivering 550 new SkyViews to Terminal, which meant that G. M.'s old operating company soon would be using nothing but his cabs...
...plane. He is known in every top Manhattan nightclub by his first name, has been chased out of most of them by the closing hour (4 a.m.). His hobby is a string of 35 race horses. But the stable is run on the same cost-accounting basis as his taxi factory...
...Chicago the Herald & Examiner was on the street with four pages of Durkin pictures. But that was only a start for his Durkin scoop. In the excited hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi, to the Herex building. Police discovered her whereabouts as extras began to roll with her by-line story of life with the notorious automobile thief and killer. When, at dawn, her story was told, Carson calmly turned her over to the police battalions that clamored outside the Herald & Examiner...