Word: jitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More important, though, are the signs of a new kind of life in Soweto, a spirit that is not limited to political consciousness. Despite the poverty and the joblessness, there are small tokens of enterprise in the townships. Residents are buying hulks of old cars to start their own jitney taxi service. Women are organizing neighborhood communal food-growing projects and day-care centers. People are buying transistors, tape decks and television sets, as if suddenly eager to latch onto a few small pleasures of life. There is champagne in the shebeens, and the chef in Soweto...
...Jitney Hodges Norfolk
...JITNEY REVIVAL. Some contributors voted for jitneys-cheap, taxi-like buses that pick up passengers at designated points and deliver them to their doors in the most convenient order. Once common, they were banned in most U.S. cities in the 1920s after Intensive lobbying by the trolley industry...
...blackout, civility increased in crisis. Thus natives took the time to direct visitors through the Minoan maze of the subway system. But probably nothing matched the extravagant politesse of Michael H. Thomas, the president of Cartier on Fifth Avenue, who offered his Mercedes 300 limousine as a plutocratic jitney. Said he in a New York Times ad: "If the absence of taxi service should keep you from selecting your diamonds at Cartier, I will be happy to send my personal car to bring you to our door...