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Word: bus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church-leased busses to haul in a congregation. In Elizabeth, N.J. a church chartered a bus to pick up parishioners and carry them to service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gas and Full Pews | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Fade. In Maurertown, Va., the town decided its test blackout had been a success after an inter-city bus overlooked it in the dark, carried a passenger five miles beyond his destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Lost. In Jamestown, N.Y., a young woman wrote to ask a bus company to return her wrap-around skirt which had come off without her noticing it while she was riding home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Habit to Break. U.S. citizens annually travel one and a half billion air miles, 15 billion intercity-bus miles, 25 billion rail miles, 240 billion motor miles -and the habit is hard to break, war or no war. With more money in pocket than ever before, people were crowding the public carriers, had increased traffic 50% in the first six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacation Days | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...fine crew. One chap that worked in sweetshop. One bus conductor. One building workman. Two married men that of never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: At Sea: Voice From Grimsby | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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