Word: bus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seery, counter-man extraordinary, bus-boy of the first water, is one of those who stand and wait in Arthur's Incorporated. He cannot understand the reason for the agitation and concern over the rapid eating habits of the student body...
After lunch the squad, coaches and managers left by bus for. White River Junction, where they boarded a special Pullman car to complete the journey to Cambridge by train. The busses pulled out amid the cheers of 1100 students and the playing of the college band. Practically the entire student body of 2200 students and the band will leave on two special trains at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. An athletic holiday has been granted over the week end so Hanover will be a deserted village tomorrow night...
...White Bus. The White Motor Co. brought out a new six-cylinder bus last week with a 100-h.p. engine, overhead valves, 7-bearing crankshaft, 4-wheel metal-to-metal air brakes, 9-in. balloon tires, double-drop frame, 2-stage springs. The body, which is a single-decker, holds 18 to 23 passengers in the de luxe model for interurban service, 25 to 29 for less taxing city service...
Into Paris last week chugged a 14-passenger motor bus, back from a 3,280-mile turn around France. Its fuel cost had been only $15. The Bleriot Co. (headed by M. Louis Bleriot, first man ever to fly over the English Channel (TIME, Aug. 30) posted advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon...
...halfpenny bun on a Waterloo bus...