Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting up in bed with his morning paper, President Roosevelt found a nasty story glaring him in the face. At a crossing just outside Washington a Baltimore & Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
Late one wet night last week a shiny, blue school bus rolled through Rockville, Md., 16 miles north of Washington. Snugly inside the bus lolled boys and girls of the senior science class of Williamsport, Md. High School, returning from a chemistry demonstration at College Park. Most of them were in the rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail...
...steel-splintering crash, almost beneath his window, brought Rev. Charles R. O'Hara bounding from his bed. By the time he reached the window, the express, Washington-bound from St. Louis, had ground past with the rear half of the Williamsport school bus still clinging to the engine cowcatcher. Father O'Hara and another priest, his house guest, hurried into the rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests...
...dawn the death toll stood at 14. Teacher, bus driver and the pupils in the front of the bus were bruised but safe. Said Driver Line: "I didn't see the train. . . ." Police charged him with manslaughter...
...before a cinema audience which will no doubt place him among its stars. The new addition to the firmament has a pleasingly masculine personality and a good baritone voice. It is unfortunate, although not irreparable, that his speaking voice sounds like any one you might hear on the bus between Providence and New York...