Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an anecdote Reporter Tomara answered Question No. 2. Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence...
...nomadic Globetrotters, No. 1 Negro basketball team in the U. S., it was the 130th victory in 132 games this season, the 1,840th victory since the team was organized 13 years ago. Traveling by bus, they cover 35,000 miles a year, attract 350,000 spectators. In all games their technique is the same: to try to get eight or ten points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year...
Realizing that a number of men want to invite Wellesley girls and do not have a car to meet them in, the Committee is planning to run a round trip bus to this college. The men will be able to ride with the girls both ways, and if 20 or more plan to use the bus, the round trip cost will be about $1.00 per couple...
Meantime, Promoter Washburn has been flooded with offers. A bus company is willing to put up $5,000 for the sightseeing concession. Baptist Washburn scorned a $2,000 offer for the beer concession with the explanation: "If you were to start a new business, you wouldn't prepare for it by getting drunk every night." At present he is angling for a commercial radio tie-up to let the U. S. know how the honeymooners are doing daily. After the honeymoon season, the city of Tampa is interested in taking over the island for a tourist playground. One unromantic...
Afternoons off, Mom and her son, like two characters out of a Theodore Dreiser novel, would go for long bus rides through booming Beverly Hills. Joe promised his Mom a big house some day and a great big car "where you sit inside and the chauffeur sits outside and gets rained on." Mickey McGuire. Through thick and thin Mom has always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley...