Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger bus...
...ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public...
...report his games, to put up additional stands to seat 5,000. This year has been even more successful than last, and polo bigwigs, who were at first inclined to consider the idea undignified, have also capitulated to popularizing polo. Tommy Hitchcock went so far as to start a bus service from Manhattan's Times Square to the Sands Point Club for Sunday games. Prices for reserved seats at Meadow Brook last week were down from...
Last week a ten-year legislative drive to put interstate bus & truck traffic under Federal control came to a successful conclusion when Congress finally passed and sent to President Roosevelt its first Motor Carrier Act. Sponsored by Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman, this new law, effective Oct. 1, provides for drastic motor carrier regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission on Rates, Routes, Safety, Wages, Hours of Labor, Financial Responsibility and the issuance of securities over...
...statutes as a model, the ICC promised to work out Federal regulations fully as drastic. Michigan requires daily records and monthly reports, "reasonable" rates, a maximum speed of 50 m. p. h. for buses, 35 m. p. h. for trucks. It prohibits standees in buses, smoking or drinking by bus drivers on duty, prescribes a maximum daily driving period of twelve hours on, ten hours...