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Just before 3 o'clock one frosty morning last week, Taximan Benoit Lefebvre, with two passengers in his cab, was wheeling briskly across the steel and concrete bridge over the frozen St. Maurice River between Three Rivers and Cap de la Madeleine. The bridge was the Pont Duplessis. Ever since 1946, when Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis awarded the $3,000,000 bridge contract without any public call for bids, it had been a political issue in the province. Duplessis' opponents said it was built with graft, loudly called attention to the cracks in its concrete. Duplessis confidently answered...
...more than 15 years, but only recently has propane begun to eat into the gasoline market in a sizable way. About 20 cities, including San Antonio, Orlando, Fla. and Winnipeg, Canada, have recently added propane buses to their transit systems. Three months ago Milwaukee's Boynton Cab Co. began converting its 279-cab fleet to propane, the first cab company to do so. With its new fleet Chicago hopes to save up to 2? a mile in operating expenses...
...little two-coach train which invariably leaves at 10:15 for Seven Sisters, where commuters invariably set down at 10:21 on the dot, transfer to the main line to London's financial district. With a few minutes to spare, Driver Percy Playle and his fireman left the cab for a quick...
Station Foreman George Buckland took a flying leap into the cab, pulled hard on the air brake. The little train slowed down, came to rest just where it should, at the end of the Seven Sisters platform. Time: 10:21 on the dot. Down the snow-covered track from Palace Gates came panting Driver Playle and his fireman. They had made the 2% miles in 16 minutes. At Seven Sisters a lone passenger got in. The little train, once more under human control, pulled out for the return trip to Palace Gates...
...Singapore, a Chinese takes a taxicab at night and in a lonely area holds up the driver, seizes his money and identity card and sets the cab on fire. Or three or four men take a bus at night and ride until the rest of the passengers alight. Then they set fire to the bus. Returning to my hotel one evening recently, I passed one of these buses just burned...