Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shooting high the young ladies at Wellesley sent an invitation for 50 "selected" officers from the Naval Training School for a dance Saturday night. They're getting their bus-load all right, but it's made up of first-come-first-served stags, as the Navy maintains that all officers in the school are selected...
Deep in the shadows of the Loop, Chicagoans took a startled look last fortnight at a 16-ton crime bus, the like of which had never been seen by cop or criminal. This mobile fort, laboratory, hospital and riot car combined was designed for the Illinois State Police by Thomas Peter Sullivan, director of Public Safety, and Leonarde Keeler, developer of the lie detector...
...communication-two-way radio, short-wave radio, standard telephone, "walkie-talkies" for its own crew working outside the bus, a superstentorian loudspeaker...
That most major-leaguers are married men with children may help save big-league baseball for 1943. But the small minor leagues-where players are young, most games are played at night, and bus transportation is the mainstay-have little hope of survival. If the bush leagues fold, big-league clubs will be forced to let their farm systems go to seed, ending the annual harvest of young players. But, conscious of their obligation to "civilian morale and the boys overseas" (as well as to their own investments), club owners intend to go ahead until the Government says "Stop...
Transit men have partly solved their problem by reconditioning old trolley cars, jamming more passengers into every car and bus. They have other schemes too. In Kansas City, a staggered work-hour scheme is calculated to give the Kansas City Public Service Co. the equivalent of 42 new busses; Indianapolis Railways (controlling all local transportation) has slashed the number of stops 40% to 2,700, dropped or shortened seven feeder lines to boot. The Cleveland Transit System recently hitched 31-passenger trailers to regular busses. In Washington, transit bigwigs tested a new device: the "standsit" seat. Spaced...