Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blinded by the storm's wrack on the open road, Driver Carl Miller steered into a ditch. The wheels spun, the bus stuck. There were 20 children in the bus, including Carl Miller's eight-year-old daughter Mary...
After 24 hours Carl Miller put Bryan Untiedt, 13, the oldest boy in the bus, in charge. "Don't let anyone go to sleep," he said, and plunged out to walk for help...
...blizzard was gathering its fury when the school bus started from the schoolhouse at Little Towner, Colo, one day last week. That was why Teacher Maude Moser had called off classes?to get the children home in time, safely...
...also made a partner. This young man began his career slowly. After graduating from Harvard in 1923 and from Harvard Business School in 1925, he went to work for his father in Stone & Webster, Inc., first on a construction job in Puget Sound, then on a Florida bus line, then with a power company in Virginia. From those occupations he went to Boston to be a messenger boy in the Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when he resigned last week to go to Kidder, Peabody...
...addition, personal calls to business houses, steamship lines, bus services, factories, and life-guard agencies have resulted in a limited number of possibilities in each of these fields. Jobs as tutor-companions have become more and more popular, and more and more difficult to attain. The position Sharpe states is a highly specialized one, and although the earnings are large, the requirements are so strict that comparatively few men are qualified for such work. Only one man in ten has been accepted out of the numerous applicants who have enrolled...