Word: bus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Associated Country Women of the World attracted about 300 delegates. Conference No. 2 drew no more to Stockholm in 1933. A ringing tribute to the gregarious quality of U. S. Womanhood was Conference No. 3 in Washington last week. Some 7,000 women, 18 to 80, arrived by bus, car and rail from all parts of the nation. To give the affair an international tone, there were also women from Ceylon, Rhodesia, Latvia, 19 other countries, who joined this largest female host ever to descend on Washington. For five days at Constitution Hall and all over the District of Columbia...
...Cedillo's standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco were killed by raiders...
...escaped alive. He left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None of this solved the bus massacre in Jalisco where Bandit Lauro Rocha is too potent to be seriously bothered...
Simultaneously, the railroads' greatest competitor voluntarily reduced its rates to new lows. Through the National Association of Motor Bus Operators, all the major Eastern bus lines announced they would at once cut their fares below the railroad's basic 2? a mile. Old bus fares were about 2? a mile. The new schedule ranges from 1.25? to 1.75?. In addition, the busses will retain their present 10% reduction for round-trip tickets-a privilege the railroads are abandoning. Under the new fares, a salesman scurrying about the nation by bus will pay $3 instead of $3.50 to ride...
Collaborating in the new bus rate schedules are the Short, Blue Ridge, Great Eastern, Safeway Trailways and Greyhound Lines. Their spokesman last week was serious, 44-year-old President Arthur M. Hill of Atlantic Greyhound, president also of the National Association of Motor Bus Operators. In the bus business since the War, he is known as the most traveled man in the industry, spends two out of every three days on the road. Said he last week: "The bus companies south of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi have had to meet this same sort of contingency before...