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"On Nanjing Road, Avenue Joffre, and other commercial streets, Bing was surprised to see newly arrived American soldiers grabbing the arm shafts of rickshaws and taking their drivers for rides yelling, 'Yahoo!' Ah Mei reported that this strange ritual was repeated with nearly every fresh batch of Yankees, who paid rickshaw drivers unheard-of sums for the privilege of pulling them.