Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week forced Pennsylvania's General Assembly into submission. For 13 weeks its Democratic House and Republican Senate had haggled in special session over relief for the State's 560,000 needy. Last month when funds ran out, a small group of unemployed rolled into Harrisburg by bus, made themselves so obnoxious that Republicans and Democrats advanced $3,000,000 for temporary relief. Last fortnight the $3,000,000 were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking by a hand-out of $4,000 from the State's homeless and transient relief...
Class I railroads of the U. S. carried 445,995,000 passengers in 1935. Last week, the National Association of Motor Bus Operators announced that non-local bus lines had beaten this mark by carrying 651,999,000 passengers in 1935. An increase of almost 50% over 1934, it was the first time busses had handled more traffic than their biggest rivals. To keep pace with this new business, the largest U. S. bus line, Greyhound Corp., last week whelped the first 25 of a litter of 305 new busses, completely outmoding present standard equipment...
Very similar in design to the new Greyhound busses are the East's first sleeper-busses, introduced on the Chicago-New York run last month by a new company named All American Bus Lines. The West Coast has had sleepers since 1928. Last year Greyhound extended its "nite-coach" service eastward as far as Kansas City (TIME, May 6, 1935). That the East was ripe for a similar facility was amply proven last week by the crowds which filled All American's sleepers to 95% of capacity...
...streamlining and quiet, is airconditioning, based on a new system. Previous sleepers have had cooling apparatus which never succeeded because it was too heavy. The new lightweight system, installed by Dry-Ice Appliance Corp. of Mount Vernon, Ill., consists of a chemical refrigerant piped around the girth of the bus after passing over carbon dioxide. A 12-hr, run in 100° temperature requires 100 lb. of dry ice. Cost...
Votes & Dimes-Same day Dr. Townsend flew to Cleveland, and his followers by thousands began trooping in for the second Townsend National Convention. By bus, battered automobile and day coach they arrived from every corner of the land, biggest delegations coming from the Pacific Coast and nearby Ohio towns. Straight to headquarters at the Hotel Cleveland they went to plank down $2 each for credentials and badges, check their luggage, then set off to look for cheap rooms in boarding houses and tourist camps...