Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bus From Providence
...necessity of registering on time, Dean Hanford yesterday said that excuses for tardiness because of the weather would still be accepted. The New Haven railroad is running several trains a day now from New York, the trip involving the necessity of going from New London to Westerly by bus, and several highways into New England are open...
Since three gendarmes still remained besieged, the Nazis dragged the wife of one through the streets by a rope binding her wrists, ordered her to beg her hus band to come out, which she did. Few minutes later a bus load of gendarmes drove up, one was instantly killed in the bus by a Nazi's shot, another was killed as he dismounted. The Nazis scattered as the gendarmes opened fire and after ward the commander of the relieving force said, "The gendarme's wife who was tied up with this rope was lying on the ground...
...garishly-lighted station-master's room in Albany, whence a bus had finally churned its way. Amid the bedlam of ringing bells and frantically shouting railroaders, the young assistant parried the thrusts of angry passengers. "But it's an Act of God. Yes, we're sorry you were stalled thirty hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner...
...kindling is transformed into gas in an ungainly looking "generator" as the bus lumbers along. This gas drives a conventional gasoline engine on which the liquid carburetor has been replaced by a gas carburetor. Last week Dictator Stalin approved orders to build in Russia within two years 56,000 wood-burning motor trucks...