Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holy Cross is bringing a squad of 17 players to Boston. The team will travel from Worcester by bus and will arrive at noon. In addition to the starting team, the following men will accompany the Holy Cross squad: Norman Sims, pitcher; Joseph Dougherty, catcher; Philip O'Connell, second baseman: Robert Friederichs, pitcher: Arthur Mahoney, pitcher: John Evers, pitcher: Frank Garrity, catcher and Frank White, outfields...
Twenty-three gold star mothers, with large placards on their bus telling who they were, drew up at a St. Mihiel battle graveyard last week. As the ladies stepped out they were surprised to find eleven gentlemen standing at stiff military attention by the side of the road. Nothing had been said about an official welcome at the cemetery. Pleased nevertheless, the mothers smiled, nodded, beamed. The eleven gentlemen remained stern and straight for a moment, then removed their hats, bowed stiffly from the waist, entered automobiles, drove quickly away...
Baltimore & Ohio (whose motor bus service for passengers from Manhattan to its Jersey terminals has raised a national railroad issue: the right of a railroad to provide such service. The I. C. C., which has already ruled against such service in freight traffic, is studying its legality in passenger traffic...
Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, who commanded the first airplane to fly from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii, motoring near San Antonio, smashed into a bus, suffered lacerations of the face, concussion of the brain, a lung punctured by a spoke of the steering wheel...
Greyhound Lines cover 36,000 miles of road, over which also travel Greyhound motorcycle patrolmen, inspecting roads and checking up on bus driving. Last year 2,264 Greyhound busses (average cost: $8,000), carried 18,000,000 passengers, went 100,000,000 miles, used 19,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Lest patriots feel Greyhound benefits from free highway use, the corporation points out that it pays over $1,000,000 in taxes a year, that the gasoline tax alone would maintain two coast-to-coast highways. Four thousand workers, trained in special schools, are employed. The company carries insurance...