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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fitzgeralds Go.West | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Marines found out last week what the Japs think of them. They think the marines are a "bunch of roughnecks." Said the Tokyo radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: Their Necks Are Leathery | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Story of My Life | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Harlow System Still Prevails in Lamar-Coached Wartime Team | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

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