Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroes of Antioch are the students who do not rely on the college to find them jobs but go out and get their own. Early last month Undergraduate Anne Sibley climbed into a bus, started East. Since self-sufficient Undergraduate Sibley refrained from telling her Chicago parents where she was going, the Eastern Press was soon conducting a search. Last week the search ended on a barker's platform outside a Coney Island freak show. Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling. She worked from noon...
...Kansas City, saying, "Mother-in-law jokes annoy me; I like all my in-laws," Dr. Thomas Richmond took all his 26 kin by marriage on a two-week holiday trip to Colorado, all expenses paid, in an 18-passenger bus. two automobiles and a truck...
...same basis as Western Union's: charged to the sender's telephone bill. It arranged with several Standard Oil companies to have filling stations accept messages. It developed its radio business, modernized transmission equipment, spruced up its messenger boys. It sought additional revenues in the distribution of bus. theatre and airline tickets...
...contrary to custom, said that anyone who had to make an early edition could skip. Several dozen skipped. ¶ To Congress the President sent a message urging legislation to continue for another year the post of Federal Coordinator of Transportation, agreeing to postpone final coordination of railroad, water carrier, bus and air lines under a reconstituted Interstate Commerce Commission until the next session of Congress. ¶ Mme Lebrun, wife of the President of France, arrived in the U. S. on the Normandie's maiden voyage. Last week before returning on the same ship she visited Mount Vernon, Arlington Cemetery...
Despite the imperfections which are obviously due to the early stages of the business, these "sleeper buses" are far more comfortable both day and night than the conventional "parlor car bus," or the day coach of the railroads; are cheaper than even "tourist sleepers;" offer the great middle class of travelers a novel, adventuresome medium for the long journey from the coast to the Middle West; will no doubt be in the near future greatly improved and extensively used...