Word: bus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there was a witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green lights of an airship...
...more men ever were found, alive. The Phœbus's first awful flash of the accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around...
...temples descended from his suite on the 33rd floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a constitutional up Fifth Avenue to Central Park and back with a companion. A few people nodded to him. He smiled out of his turned-up collar. On Fifth Avenue someone leaned over a bus rail, shouted: "Howdy, Hoover! How're you doing...
...predicted would be the next Director of the Budget. After Mr. Hines left, the President-elect confided to the Press that he was working on a plan for a national transportation commission in which would be consolidated the Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal regulation of civil aeronautics, shipping and bus & truck traffic. Less concrete were his ideas on a national commission on communications to be built around the Federal Radio and Power Commissions...
...established the investment banking house of Mulliken & Roberts in New York City and-his Chicago house being "haunted"-moved to a 1,200-acre estate at New Canaan, Conn. There, his guests used to be driven around his estate in a private sight-seeing bus with the top down. His favorite cars were two Reo taxicabs with the meters taken out. When those wore out he bought Rolls-Royces, in pairs. To business he frequently wore a bottle green suit, green shirt, green tie, green derby...