Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formerly, Freshmen could line the hallway of Phillips Brooks House to watch with critical eyes the entrance of Wellesley newcomers, who had paid a 50 cent bus fare for the occasion. But this year Harvard men are going to prove that they are true gentlemen, as well as scholars, by submitting to the slight expense and the rigors of the 38-minute train ride...
Quacking taxis waddled and pushed. A scarlet bus snorted. Bicycles got in everybody's way. A scrofulous old horse and barouche tangled with an American jeep. Bobbies waved their arms, even raised their voices...
...Evalyn Walsh McLean, Washington socialite, has provided garden benches, paper cups, a water cooler-and even a butler-for weary bus riders who wait transportation in front of her home at R St. and Wisconsin...
Twice in recent weeks ugly gossip ran up & down the wide and sunburned streets of Rome, Ga. (pop. 26,282): there had been what the white residents called "nigger trouble." A young Negro had sat in the white section on a bus, starting a row. Then word spread that a Negro preacher was saying that now, while white men and boys were away in the Army, was the time for Negroes to assert their rights...
...enough old tires, make enough new ones of reclaimed rubber to meet the irreducible minimum-replacement demand to keep all present cars on the road. But the press underplayed the industry's quid pro quo for the miracle: To achieve it, said the tiremen, every car, truck and bus in the U.S. will have to cut its usual mileage an average of 25% (which means much more than a 25% cut for a lot of nonessential mileage). Moreover, nobody at all can drive more than 40 m.p.h...