Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five Business School dining halls use student waiters and bus boys exclusively. The student waiters do their job efficiently and "many of them prefer it to other kinds of work." Dean Harris said. "The other students don't object to student waiting the slightest...
Private cars helped to transport people to & from their work. They drove up to bus stops, offered free rides. Those which did not stop voluntarily were halted by the police...
...morning last week 45 children in 45 Denver homes were too excited to eat breakfast. Up since dawn, they clutched schoolbooks, babbled to their parents. Soon, to each door in succession rolled a school bus. "Rusty," the bus driver, marched in, picked up a small passenger, carried him to a seat in the bus. His passengers were going to Denver's new School for Crippled Children. For many, it was their first school...
...Buenos Aires Arturo Toscanini and the NBC orchestra disregarded the superstition of native musicians that the playing of Saint-Saens' ghoulish Danse Macabre spelled death for one of its performers. Later Violist Jacques Tushinsky was struck and killed by a bus. Not until the orchestra was on its way back to the U. S. last week was Maestro Toscanini informed of the death. Whereupon the white-haired, 73-year-old conductor burst into tears, refused all nourishment but fruit juice...
...consultants to Railroader Ralph Budd, Defense Advisory Commissioner in charge of transportation, went A. T. Wood, president of Lake Carriers Association; Edward Vincent Rodgers, president of American Trucking Association; Frederick C. Homer, assistant to the chairman of General Motors; Arthur Middleton Hill, president of National Association of Motor Bus Operators and Atlantic Greyhound Corp...