Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will go to Laconia, Plymouth, Waterville Valley (leave bus at West Campton Post Office on going trip and entrain at Campton railroad station on return trip), North Woodstock, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, White River Junction (Tamworth, Wonalancet, Chocorus), Conway, North Conway, Intervale (Jackson, Bartlett, Glen, Pinkham Notch...
...shots on his picture The Flying Irishman, demanded and got 25? supper money. In the past three months, Aviator Corrigan has netted some $75,000 for acting and for writing an autobiography. Most parsimonious celebrity in Hollywood, he lives in a cheap hotel room, rides to work on a bus, lunches on a nickel ice-cream bar, spends his weekends relining the brakes on his ten-year...
...made efficient. Already in use in the British Daimler's "fluid flywheel," it is also the basis for hydraulic transmissions being installed this year by General Motors on 150 busses. The General Motors adaptation replaces not only the clutch, but all transmission gears except reverse, relieving the bus driver of the job of clutching and shifting gears in ordinary stop-and-go operation, making less harried the task of driving, opening and closing doors and collecting fares...
Last autumn they decided to go to the U. S. Traveling all together in a specially chartered bus, Papa von Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...
...game itself was described variously as "a combination of rugby, soccer, wrestling and bullfighting" and "very much like a collision between an automobile and a bus," but it was declared "too brutal" for the French taste...