Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been shoved forward over the engine. Performance has been stepped up but SAFETY is now the watchword. A good truck will stop faster than a light roadster, and while pleasure car accidents have increased nearly 60% in the past eight years, commercial vehicle accidents have risen only about 10%. Bus accidents have actually declined. Nearly all truckmakers are experimenting with Diesel engines, though only 600 Diesel-powered units were put on the roads last year. Of those only about one-third were in new chassis, the rest going into models previously powered by gasoline. Milwaukee's Sterling...
...happen, and there was nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
During the day the gashed body of a river captain floated up, and a diver brought up the corpse of a woman. Other dead, found when the bus had been raised by cranes that night: two men, ten women...
Even with gasoline at a new war price of $1.20 per gal. many Italians continued to drive their cars, but the Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State...
...Hertz took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around the streets, painted them yellow, cut fares from 40? to 20? a mile. He organized additional Yellow Cab companies, at one time controlled 95% of U. S. cabs outside New York. He also went into the taxicab, bus and truck manufacturing business with the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. and started the Hertz Drivurself hired-car system. In 1925 he sold the manufacturing and Drivurself business to General Motors for $43,000,000, also disposed of his Yellow Cab holdings...