STORK AN ALSO-RAN
With the birthrate still booming, Brooklyn Borough (New York) now has a swift fleet of maternity taxis—--14 seven-seater limousines specialising in rushing very-expectant mothers to hospitals. The service is believed to be the first of its kind. The charge is 12/6 to take the mother-to-be, the husband and any number of jittery relatives to any hospital in Brooklyn. The slogan is: “We beat the stork.” Proprietor Daniel Lissner said : “We are supposed to be a mother’s car service, but, in practice, when we are driving patients to hospitals, we are also birth consultants, Dutch uncles and father confessors. “We handle about 40 of ’em a day.” All drivers have been, given an elementary course of obstetrical first-aid. They also carry smelling-salts for highly-strung fathers.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 99, 26 February 1947, Page 8
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127STORK AN ALSO-RAN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 99, 26 February 1947, Page 8
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