Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, police arrested Joseph Fox, 46, alias Joseph Wolf, Harry Gross, Harry Solomon, for picking a bus passenger's pocket. In court it was revealed that since 1904 he had been arrested 75 times in 14 cities-mostly on pickpocket charges-and convicted 26 times. Explained Pickpocket Fox: "Everybody has his own pattern cut out for him. This seems to be mine...
Last week as the temperature rose steadily, the Tanana ice-jam began moving, drawing the wire taut. At 8:04 p. m. May 12 the trigger was tripped, the clock stopped, making Mervin E. Anderson, 31-year-old Fairbanks bus driver, whose guess of 8:02 p. m. was nearest correct, some $75,000 richer. Day before Guesser Anderson split with another guesser the $3,500 first prize in another similar pool based on the movement of ice in the Chena River at Fairbanks...
...Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...
Like Dos Passos, Author Asch believes the way to go about anatomizing the U. S. is to examine the private histories of the people who are not news. "What I wanted to see was what was so typical that to the natives it was almost banal." He took a bus because it was cheapest, because train travel is stilted and because in an automobile "the only ones you get to talk to are filling station men and traffic cops." In a bus the atmosphere is unaffected, intimate. "Under the murderous vibration . . . you've got to relax . . . everybody sings...
...week's end the court of inquiry had decided that busmen should have slower schedules, had not decided about the 7½-hour day. The busmen, however, agreed to vote on these partial findings and Londoners did not despair of being able to bus to the Coronation...