Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to span Louisiana rivers; the contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent $13,000,000 to build them. Charity hospitalization in New Orleans has been increased from 1,800 to 3,800 patients per day and bus excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods. As Governor, Senator Long doubled the capacity of the State cotton warehouse at New Orleans, effected a cut from $1.60 to 26¢ in the insurance rate...
...Regulation of competing motor carriers by the Interstate Commerce Commission, with permission for railroads to supply supplementary truck and bus service...
...three months five honest Wets toured the U. S. in a bus named "Diogenes" looking for a drunkard who had been reformed by the 18th Amendment. They had been despatched by the Crusaders and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Last week.after traveling 12,000 miles through 36 States they returned to Manhattan emptyhanded. Reported Paul Morris, short, bald director of the research party...
...fitted] with apple green leather and fiddleback mahogany, while the Queen's boudoir saloon has paler green silk upholstery and Jacobean oak furniture. Her sleeping compartment is decorated in blue and there is a pink marble bathroom adjoining." ¶ Not to be outdone by the railroads, Scottish bus companies began uniforming their conductors in kilts and blazers embroidered with the companies' initials. Chided the Manchester Guardian: "From blazers it is an easy step to ties-and from busses it will be strange if the house-tie habit does not extend until stevedores write letters to the newspapers complaining...
...catch-can wrestling championship. Ivar Johansson, Swedish policeman, took a Turkish bath instead of attending his victory ceremonies. Then, 11 lb. lighter, he won the welterweight Graeco-Roman wrestling championship. Other Graeco-Roman champions were Finnish Vaino Kokkinen, who defended his 1928 middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland...