Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this constitutional principle embodied in the First Amendment. We are not assaulting any constitutional principle when we ask that public and parochial school children of all denominations be included in Government-initiated public welfare programs. The United States Supreme Court, in the Everson decision, established the constitutionality of free bus rides for all children. It is not conceivable that anyone would challenge the constitutionality of health services...
Teamsters in all U.S. cities will simultaneously set out to double the union's membership from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. They will go after new members in the automotive trades, bakeries, the beverage industry, building and construction, canneries, dairies, the taxicab and short-haul bus fields, general hauling, sales drivers, the produce field, warehouses and driveaway and truck-away enterprises...
...Bus Stop. Word flashed through Durban that an Indian shopkeeper in the central market had brutally beaten a Zulu boy. Some said the boy had been killed, but few waited to learn his fate. In Victoria Street a band of infuriated blacks bore down on some Indians patiently queueing for a bus, and began hurling stones and broken bottles. From there the rioting spread to Durban's Indian quarter in the heart of the city, where other bands of blacks smashed windows, pillaged and looted. Indians huddled in terror behind their shops...
...Laugh at Me. By 1935, Huron was on its way back, and Hubert, who had shown little interest in girls, had met a brunette named Muriel Buck, the daughter of a produce and feed dealer whose business had gone to dust. Hubert took a bus trip to Washington, and wrote a letter back to his fianc...
Motorists and bus passengers were marooned in stores, juke joints, crossroads hamlets all over the storm area. Like the 343 who spent three days jammed in a tavern at tiny (pop. 4) Rockport, Colo, many went without beds and got short rations as supplies ran out. Fifty-eight stranded people at nearby Lone Tree fared better-drivers of two stalled Safeway trucks obligingly unloaded groceries and distributed them to the hungry...