Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican importer named Eugene LeBar and his wife, bound for Manhattan, boarded a bus in Mexico City. That was on Feb. 25. Four days later, checking in wearily at a midtown Manhattan hotel, Mr. LeBar began to feel ill. His wife tried to nurse him, finally had him taken to a hospital...
...last week, Eugene LeBar's month-old death had touched off one of the most elaborate disease hunts in recent U.S. history. Throughout Manhattan, and all along the bus route, in many another U.S. city and town, health officers and U.S. Public Health Service officials anxiously tried to reach all the thousands of people who might have come in contact with LeBar on his fortnight's wanderings. He had died of smallpox...
...long way from the one Hupmobile with which Founder Carl Eric Wickman, whose sad eyes seem to be always peering through a windshield, started in 1914. An immigrant from Sweden, Wickman carried passengers on the dirt roads fanning out from Hibbing, Minn. Practically in at the birth of the bus business, his infant line grew by gobbling up his one-car competitors...
...holding company which controls 19 transportation systems under the Greyhound emblem-Atlantic Greyhound, Pennsylvania Greyhound (50% owned by Pennsylvania Railroad), Pacific Greyhound, etc. The systems have over 78,000 miles of routes, six times greater than the mileage of any single U.S. railroad, do some 40% of U.S. intercity bus business. Last year the company grossed $174 million, earned a net of nearly $20 million, and paid handsome stock dividends of $3.20 a share...
...addition, Caesar has spent half a million dollars building an experimental double-decker bus, the first for long haul, express runs. Worked out with Designer Loewy, it will be only 18 inches higher than present buses and no longer. But the tricky new seat arrangement will permit 13 more passengers to be carried, 50 v. 37 in present buses. It also has a washroom, toilet, water cooler, may even carry a hostess. The driver sits in a special clearview compartment between the two decks. It will start on its shakedown cruises this summer. If the trial runs suit Caesar...