Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hours. Meanwhile the stores jam through one operation change after another. To take care of war workers and extra-busy housewives, most stores stay open until 9 or 10 one or two nights a week. To offset the transportation pinch a Sears, Roebuck outlet in Sacramento started a free bus service-a sales-getting scheme used for years in outlying Brooklyn districts. And counter revolutions go on endlessly: jams & jellies on the toilet-goods counter; dinnerware in the outlawed electrical-goods department; blackout accessories on the once-busy hosiery counter...
Meanwhile the transit labor situation gets worse weekly. Never overpaid, trolley conductors and bus drivers are scampering off to war jobs in droves. In Washington a bus driver was in such a hurry to quit that he jerked to a stop at a traffic light, left a load of puzzled passengers stranded at the curb (TIME, Sept...
...trolley and bus-line operators are riding smack into the worst crisis in their history: a crush of new passengers, a crying need for new equipment, an acute labor shortage...
...problem is how to carry them. Before the war most operators bought only enough equipment to keep things going. Now they could use 33,500 new 40-passenger buses or 19,500 new trolleys-and can get neither. Worse still, extra-heavy loads are wearing bus tires at a faster-than-expected rate with no hope of any volume replacements before December...
...said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half out of Noel Coward. "I can't help his being the son of an earl. I fell in love with Gerald before I knew who he was when I met him on a bus...