Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's five Fitzgerald brothers call themselves "just a bunch of farmers trying to run a few busses." To the list of 31 cities in which the brothers already run their "few" busses and streetcars, they added another last week-Los Angeles. Through American City Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of National City Lines, Inc., top holding company in the Fitzgerald chain, the brothers bought the stock of the $50,000,000 Los Angeles Railway Corp. from the estate of Henry E. Huntington, one of the builders of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and collector of art, books and legends...
...Marines found out last week what the Japs think of them. They think the marines are a "bunch of roughnecks." Said the Tokyo radio...
Lieut. General James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, brilliant, scrappy commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, stood happily by while Corporal Ruby Newell, of Long Beach, Calif., accepted a bunch of roses and the verdict of U.S. doughboys stationed in England that she is "the most beautiful WAC in the European theater...
...seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos to come and be saved...
...whole trick of the system is to work out several series of plays, for each contest, discarding that bunch when the game was over. According to Torbie Macdonald, one-time Crimson ace halfback, and captain, Lamar used almost nine tenths of the old Harlow play series in the game against Worcester last Saturday...