Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Varsity quintet faces the Dartmouth Indians Saturday night in the second league game between the two teams, the basketballers will be reinforced by a contingent of rooters from Cambridge. Plans are underway for transporting a large cheering section to Hanover by bus...
...British Security Police dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded, without overcoats, one in the blue of a Luftwaffe officer, the other in German infantry grey, they first took a pleasant bus ride from London to Gerrard's Cross 17 miles away. They talked socially with their fellow passengers in guttural, Germanic English. One passenger thought they were Russians, others favored the hypothesis that they were Poles or Czechs. They asked questions of a British Army captain-who answered them...
Leaving the bus just outside of Gerrard's Cross, they inquired the way to town of an R.A.F. officer, who graciously obliged. "Guten Morgen," said the polite men in the German uniforms...
...rush started in December, when all plants put truck & bus tire output on a 168-hour week basis. Now Akron is setting production records on airplane tires, tank tracks, barrage balloons, bulletproof gas tanks, life rafts, gas masks, thousands of other wartime rubber items. Because the biggest bomber tire uses more rubber than 60 passenger-car tires and the tracks of a medium tank use almost a ton, Akron is "chewing" rubber at a record rate. December consumption was 60-70,000 tons, highest December ever and enough to use up the entire U.S. stockpile (Jesse Jones's figure...
Enrico Caruso, 38-year-old son of the late, great tenor, got into a spat with a woman bus passenger in Chicago, wound up in court charged with disorderly conduct. The woman said straphanging Enrico refused to let her squeeze by him, stamped on her foot, slapped her. Enrico said she shoved him, called him a beetle. He apologized in court; the case was dismissed...