Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...berth charge. Other minor points: there is no table in the compartments: there is no "hot"' water; the radio went out of commission within an hour of our start in our compartment but it wasn't any good any way because of static due to the bus generator...
Schedules and equipment and operating personnel have not yet gotten down to a satisfactory state. . . . Our Western trip was canceled a few hours before departure because of motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built...
...bus, car and rail the farmers suddenly began pouring into Washington one day last week. Special trains arrived by night, parked near the Department of Agriculture Building. Shortly after sunrise a column of men with horny hands, brown faces and shaved necks climbed down from the Pullmans, filed into the Department to wait for Secretary Wallace, the Great White Father of Agriculture, to come to work. Soon the capital was swarming with cotton planters from Texas, wheat growers from Kansas, North Carolina tobacco men, Iowa corn-hoggers. For with their benefit checks in jeopardy, the farmers had rallied to Cliff...
...discomforts of all-night bus travel, amply publicized in 1934's prize cinema, It Happened One Night, are familiar to most U. S. citizens. But few Easterners know that, since 1929, Pacific Greyhound Lines has operated a sleeper-bus service up the West Coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This week Pacific Greyhound will give midlanders a taste of high-way sleeping when it opens "nitecoach" service from Los Angeles to Kansas City -first daily cross-country sleeper-bus...
...Stolen Harmony" is a mixture between a gangster pictures, a behind-the-scenes musical cofedy, and a bus romance. It has all the thrills known to conventional movie-land,--speeding busses, motor-cycles and sirens, gangster hideouts, a misunderstood hero, gauze covered females, crooning erotic paw dances, luxurious bars, a gun-battle, tough humor, raucous humor, dirty humor, love and kisses. The packed theatre drooled in ecstasy...