Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penn meet, the Crimson tankmen turned in some of the poorest times they have made during the current campaign. True, Bus Curwen was a double winner at Philadelphia, tanking the 200 yard breast stroke and the 220 yard free style, while Bill Drucker triumphed in his back stroke specialty as usual and Dave Barnes won the 440 free style, but the fact is that every event that the Ulenmen took was won with times two and three seconds slower than average. This might have been due to a strange pool and the fact that Harvard was never really threatened...
...prodded on by the bayonets of Jap sentries in civilian clothes. Food and money were scarce. The only stores still open were Japanese bazaars. A package of rice which once cost a nickel now cost 25?. A single match sold for 15 centavos (7½?). Trolleys and a single bus line were still running. But except for these and the dozen arrogant, sleek cars of Japanese officials and their friends, the streets were bare of traffic...
...this comes at the worst possible time, and the industry is stuck with a colossal lack of equipment. Only last September OPM actually curtailed new bus and trolley production. Since Pearl Harbor the bars have been lifted, insofar as A-3 materials priorities can lift any bar. But the 7,000 city-type busses now on order represent more than a full year's normal production...
...heart of this heart-rending problem is the trolley, which has for years been dying a lingering death both from bus competition and from that of the automobile. The rubber shortage would bring back the trolley, but the entire trolley-building capacity of the U.S. is no more than 2,000 cars a year.* Result: a mad rush to recondition old and abandoned cars, whatever the cost. Detroit's smart Fred Nolan, general manager of the Department of Street Railways (TiME, Aug. 14, 1939), despairing of the 500 new motor coaches he needs, is thinking of refurbishing 125 ancient...
...Middies took only one first place, that being in the Medley Relay, as Bus Curwen and "Big John" Eusden took too first places respectively for the Crimson...