Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from military to civilian life if the U. S. air industry pursues its present policy. After enjoying the social prestige of the service uniform, most flyers will hesitate before changing to a status which commercial operators hope to make comparable-in respectability, responsibility and pay-to that of the bus chauffeur and locomotive engineer...
...Regulate interstate motor bus traffic...
Indirectly a unit of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. is the $60,000,000 Northern Ohio Power & Light Co. Its primary business is furnishing power but, as does many another power company, it also runs trolleys and busses. Last week the Akron, Kenmore & Barberton Bus Lines filed a $1,000,000 damage suit against Northern Ohio Power & Light, charging acts that would be most unusual in a company of Northern Ohio's size and prestige. The base of the suit was the charge that the power company conspired to have an employe work for the bus lines, that this person "maliciously...
...lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
...deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen with utterly ruined grey toppers drove sadly up to London in waterlogged sport cars, their womenfolk clustered on sodden back seats with tired, disgusted, hair-streaked faces...