Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike was short-lived. Bus drivers, taximen, public service workers, presumably inspired by their employers, had scarcely got it into momentum before Acting Governor Horton stepped in with a proclamation. The price of gasoline was 25?; he reduced it to 20? ordered the leading companies-Shell, Texaco, West India (Standard of New Jersey subsidiary), Pyramid-to keep it at that price until gasoline costs could be investigated. The Commissioner of Labor, a Puerto Rican, magnanimously suggested that if the companies starved on a 20? price, the Legislature should reimburse them for their loss...
Died. James Southworth Parker, 66, Republican Representative from New York's 29th Congressional District since 1913; of a paralytic stroke; in Washington. As longtime chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee of the House he busied himself with railroads, air lines, bus lines...
Widow Jennie Smith's four youngsters, aged 9 to 16, and 35 other Florida farm children were packed in their school bus when it reached the end of its outward route one morning last week. There one pupil's parent had built a special turnaround, so the bus would not have to cross the Atlantic Coast Line tracks on its way back to Crescent City's elementary school. But the morning was so foggy that D. R. Niles, the 65-year-old bus driver, kept to the road. He had just put the bus's front...
...frantic parents the train's engineer gibbered that he had had his bell clanging, his whistle wide open, that he had not seen the bus until it had turned sharply almost under the locomotive wheels. Lying cut and bruised on a cot in a Baptist parsonage, old D. R. Niles hoped that he, too, would...
...reduced first-class (chair and sleeping car) fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...