Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook (N.J.) and Manhattan's sleek Bryn Mawr and Vassar Clubs all planned bus trips to Flushing Meadow...
...hold that hemline." In Louisville, 1,265 Little Below the Knee Club members signed a manifesto against any change in the old knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started up and she had to run a block before the bus stopped and she was freed...
Long String. The American News Co., a distributor of newspapers and magazines, as well as of food on railroads and in bus and airport terminals, got ready to pay its sooth consecutive bimonthly dividend -25?. Since its founding in 1864, it has not missed a dividend...
Harrington also had a long-range program that made Chicagoans bug-eyed. By upping streetcar and bus fares from 9? to 10? (El fares would remain at 12?), he hoped to boost the operational earnings of the combined lines, now taxexempt, to about $14 million a year (last year's earnings: $8,000,000 before taxes). With this money coming in to meet depreciation and debt charges, he planned to spend $150 million on modernization. By 1955, if all went well, Chicago would get 2,900 new buses, 600 new streetcars, 1,000 new El coaches...
...chose to read his own newspaper on the way to work, the average bus or train rider could find plenty of reason to think that the U.S. economy was in an ominously nervous state. But if he looked out the window, he could hardly fail to see some reassuring signs. The men who manage and man the nation's factories are not contemplating an early shutdown...