Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumist Phillips' offering that day was a "letter" from President Hoover, inviting Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of the school-bus catastrophe in Colorado (TIME. April 6, 13), to visit the White house. Excerpt...
...sympathy between us, my boy, and I am in a particularly fine position to appreciate what you have suffered, as I, too, have been through a terrible storm. In fact, the storm I have been caught in has lasted two years and I am still stalled in the bus. . . . When I got in the bus every thing was warm and sunny. . . . Almost from the moment I got . . . under way, however, the temperature began falling. I never knew it could get so cold in such a short time. . . . It blew some of the business boys and bankers right through the bus...
...real bus tragedy, three small children were really frozen to death, two died later...
Home from the hospital, Bryan Untiedt, 13, hero of the Towner, Colo., school-bus catastrophe (TIME, April 6 & 13), sat on the livingroom couch with his frost-bitten feet in a pan of hot water and watched his younger brothers and sisters play. All had been frost-nipped except Virgil, 11, who had not attended school that blizzardy day. "He wouldn't be so fresh if he'd been on the bus," Bryan remarked to a visiting newsgatherer...
...assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks and is a winged bus. The venturi tube (which catches the wind for the speed indicator) attached to the nose outside, even suggests an oldtime Ford crank. But it is the cabin interior that Designer Stout has ingeniously arranged to make the automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that...