Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wildcats, who have been making money, plausibly retort that without the cheap "air coach" rates most of their passengers would have gone by train or bus. Said strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocksure Stan Weiss, president of wildcat Standard Air Lines: "The airlines are afraid of us, not because we are taking money away from them, but because the public and the Government now have something to measure them...
...school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire cross-country trip for 29 students set A.F.S. back less than...
...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...
Supina landed at La Guardia Field, stepped out and waited to be arrested. When nobody showed up to seize him, Supina was somewhat embarrassed because he had no bus fare. He borrowed some cash, made his way to Connecticut and waited patiently while what the press described as a "manhunt" went on. The next day he walked disgustedly into a newspaper office and gave himself...
Last week, when bus fares in Puebla were raised from 10 to 15 centavos, crowds rioted, overturned buses, set them afire; federal troops were sent to restore order. Extremists on both sides, Sinar-quistas of the right and Communists of the left, will try to take, advantage of public exasperation...