Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Press vouched for this: "A bus driver was blown out of his seat by the concussion of a bomb. His lifeless hands still gripped the steering wheel...
Cambridge's first game is on Wednesday, when they meet Yale in the Bowl at New Haven. On Friday they will travel by bus to Boston, points of interest being included on the route. While in Boston they will stay at the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Avenue. The game against Harvard will take place on Saturday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock in the Stadium...
...radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered in or near the city. Focus of operations...
...address the convention, the Committee's chairman, wiry Dr. Floyd Wesley Reeves, tried to smooth the waters by explaining the Committee had not suggested that Federal money go directly to parochial schools, but that States and localities receiving Federal aid be permitted to supply free textbooks, school bus service, scholarships, health and welfare services to parochial school children (as at least five States already...
...John Hertz and his associates in Lehman Brothers offered to buy it for $3,250,000 ($1,000,000 cash, rest in notes). It so happens that North American Aviation is controlled by General Motors Corp. through ownership of nearly 30% of its stock. The various Hertz truck and bus lines are General Motors' valued customers and shrewd Financier Hertz knew G. M. would think twice before snubbing his bid for Eastern. But John Hertz reckoned without Eddie Rickenbacker...