Word: jinrikisha
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...JAPAN The jinrikisha (human-force wheel), thought to have been invented here by local carpenters or American missionaries, became the most popular form of transport during the time of the Meiji Restoration. Over 25,000 rickshaws roamed Tokyo's streets in the 1870s...
Through Hong Kong's twisting, crowded streets drove Gina Lollobrigida, riding alternately in a gold-painted Fiat and a jinrikisha, and extolling at every stop the virtues of Italian products. Not to be outdone, the French dispatched Starlet Mylene Demongeot on a Hong Kong tour to draw attention to a display of French products. The tiny (398 sq. mi.) crown colony is used to being wooed. It is one of the busiest and most prosperous spots in the Orient, important both to neighboring Red China and to foreign companies that want to do business in the Far East...
After Japan's surrender, General Tanaka decided to do something about this cultural problem. Japan's streets were crawling with a new three-wheel pedicab which had largely displaced the old, coolie-pulled jinrikisha.* These provided the driver with pedals to push with, but they still left him boorishly up front. Visionary Tanaka decided to give his country a more cultured conveyance. He took his savings and ordered a tricycle pedicab built, with the driver's seat in the rear. Then he hired himself out as a ricksha...
Guests of Alexander Woollcott, arriving at his island in Bomoseen Lake, Vt., have always had to make the trip from the dock to his house on foot, because the island is too small to accommodate a car. In the Chicago Daily News last week appeared a want ad: "WANTED-Jinrikisha, preferably one originally used at Chicago Century of Progress. Address Alexander Woollcott, Bomoseen...
...Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding and a U. S. Marine Corps Ambulance on Seymour Road, Shanghai, China...