Word: bus
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Last week came proof that U.S. air lines have landed in the major league of U.S. transportation. Based on first-quarter revenues, two air lines are now among the 15 leading passenger carriers, along with twelve railroads and one bus system. Two others were in the top 25: United Air Lines (passenger revenue: $1,839,507) and T.W.A. (revenue: $1,428,070). The lineup...
Schoolmaster Tewkesbury got the highway fever in 1937. In 1938 he made his way by train, bus, airplane and on foot over the proposed highway route as far as Panama. There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through; that no white man had ever made the trip; that this jungle was an insuperable barrier to the highway. To Schoolmaster Tewkesbury the word "insuperable" was an affront to Americanism...
According to latest reports from Red Top where the crews have been working out and practicing for the last week, both boats will be stroked by Sophomores. Bus Curwen, rangy Bolles' number eight man, seems to be firmly seated after his pace-setting against Navy, Princeton, Cornell, and Syracuse. Eiliot Macy will stroke the Blue boat...
...apart in a sort of royal enclosure), the mannequins were a fine aperitif. But they meant nothing to 15,000 racing fans who jampacked Belmont's grandstands. Far more exciting to them were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman's dream of turning $2 into a four-door sedan...
...Bus Curwen, in his second appearance as Varsity stroke, dropped the beat to 31 and with his whole crew swinging in perfect precision behind him, the Harvard eight drew rapidly away from the rest of the fleet. The Crimson had over a length on Princeton at the bridge and at the finish Captain Sherm Gray's boat was timed in 9:23, over two lengths ahead of the Orange and Black...