Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then a bus line was put through to Keu Kong, and young Fung Kwok-keung took to hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
...sell it in slot machines. The In-surograph Agency of America, incorporated in Kansas for that surprising purpose, is the notion of a small group of Wichita businessmen. In about two weeks Standard Register Co. of Dayton will begin manufacturing machines for them to put in railway and bus stations...
Figures on the percentage of unionization among House waitresses were disclosed last night. It was also said that 90 percent of the bus boys, cooks, salad men, truckmen, and dishwashers were A.F. of L. members. Statistics follow: Dunster 100% Lowell 100% Leverett 100% Winthrop 80% Kirkland 80% Adams 75% Eliot 4 girls
Meanwhile strong possibilities developed that a counter drive was afoot to introduce a company union. It was believed that primary purpose of this move is to offset the startling progress made during the last two weeks by cooks, waitresses and bus boys towards permanent organization...
...problem given the contestants was the designing of a bus terminal and commercial building upon a given site in Providence...