Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he tapped 260-lb. John A. Ritchie, bus-bigwig; this week will draft other transportation big shots...
...present from her husband last week: A $1,500 beaver coat. Art Rubloff, ex-shoe-shine boy, now a top Chicago real-estate man, was feeling chipper. Said he: "I've done myself a nice fat deal." The "fat deal" was for a new $4,700,000 Greyhound bus terminal which will streamline the skyline of Chicago's Loop...
...arrived in Seattle that he was engaged to cinemambitious blue-blood Cobina Wright Jr. Cobina and mother denied it. Said Beaudette: "I think I'll just forget the whole thing." .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. ...Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp for the U.S. and then skipped the U.S. for Germany, married one Irene Traut.....Of a lovelorn lawyer waiting her return to Brazil, Carmen Miranda told...
...display were 36 75s, converted to anti-tank fire and mounted in armored trucks with tractor treads which could take them nearly anywhere a tank could go (see cut). On tiny "jeeps" and swamp buggies-jeeps with enormous wheels and bus-size tires for mushing through mud and snow-were 18 ordinary anti-tank guns...
Along 1,200 miles of Detroit streets not a streetcar or bus moved for four days. Industrial plants on the sprawling city's outskirts, chockablock with defense orders, were slowed down because some employes could not get to work. Traffic was disrupted, accidents increased. Detroiters howled with wrath, but were helpless. They thumbed rides, went to work on roller skates, on bicycles-built-for-two (see cut). A.F. of L. and C.I.O. were fighting for control of the transit workers, and while they fought Detroit got along as best it could...