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Word: passengerless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buses rolled passengerless along streets clogged with trudging Negroes, sympathetic white motorists of Johannesburg began more and more to stop and offer lifts. Strydom's police set up roadblocks to harass the drivers, checking and rechecking licenses and registrations, whipping out tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: No Law on Earth | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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