Word: taximan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fare Enough? In Holyoke, Mass., Taximan George Hamel advertised: "Tell us where you are-that's all we want to know. We'll take you where you want to go safely, comfortably," got a fast letter from 22 soldiers in Korea: "We are 1 6 miles north of the 38th parallel on the main supply route, third foxhole on the right, off in a rice paddy with very little water in it. Please pick us up as soon as possible...
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...
...Suddenly my car started to jump like a deer," said Taximan Lefebvre. "I saw a wave of snowy pavement roll toward me." The car appeared to strike the side of the bridge and then fell into space...