Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some $2,500,000 was spent to check the 539,541 valid registrations (528,005 votes were cast, of which 2,249 were invalid); to set up 860 voting booths in 83 Saar voting areas; to furnish free rail and bus transport within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied...
Pack-jammed with German ham actors and actresses, a creaking bus coughed and sputtered across Hanover last week amid dense fog toward the troupe's next one-night stand. ";Ich kann gar nichts sehen. I can't see a thing" grumbled the bus driver. Just then he crashed through a railway safety gate, jammed his bus on the tracks...
...away something shrieked. Then the dull glow of a headlight stabbed out of the fog. Before the terrified actors could move, straight through them and their bus plowed the special train of Realmleader Adolf Hitler, traveling at more than 100 kilometers per hour...
...Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
Professor Chamberlain, also, will be assisted by Dr. Wallace in Economics 4c, which will discuss the problems of the light, gas, water, bus, railroad, and air interests. Continuing the policy of considering current events, the course will discuss the proposed regulations of motor transportation and the work of the Federal Railroad Coordinator with the suggested changes proposed in the reports of Mr. Eastman. The possibilities of public ownership will also enter the discussion as a possible alternative...