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Bill Ronan, the principal guest at last week's CIT annual dinner, is currently chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He has a huge knowledge of transport in all modes and—according to CIT president, Mr R. M. Robbins—Dr Ronan boasts the longest entry in the American Who's Who.
Describing the hazards of being an advocate of public transport in the United States, Bill Ronan confessed that he had been hanged in effigy in
Westchester and burned in effigy in Nassau County. To round off, he had also been excommunicated from a faith he had never belonged to !
Dr Ronan hinted strongly that the American public were not taking energy saving seriously. Compact cars, he said, are not selling, but "gas guzzlers," on which most Americans are hooked, sell very well. One model is selling so well that a $2,000 premium has been put on it.