Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she refused to sit in the Jim Crow section of a Norfolk-Baltimore bus, Irene Morgan, a Negro, was thrown out and fined $10. Virginia's highest court upheld the action. But an appeal was made to the U.S. Supreme Court. This week seven nimble Justices ducked the racial question and settled everything on the basis of comfortable traveling...
...effects of the tie-up were immediate. Hotels brought out cots, opened lounges as dormitories (200,000 people were stranded in New York alone). Automobile traffic swelled; crowds mobbed bus terminals and the airlines. There were runs on food stores and gas stations in dozens of U.S. cities...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
...study halls, kindergartens, libraries, and local stores can be undertaken by the 520 to 820 families that will be assigned to the area. The railroads have promised to "do their utmost" to provide adequate transportation to and from Devens, 32 miles away, with possible use of spur tracks. Regular bus service and car pools should supply the remainder of the necessary facilities. Rents lower than those paid in Cambridge will make up some of the increased expense involved. With expeditious action by the FPHA, the community should be ready for occupancy at the beginning of the fall term...
Early one morning last week Canute Linerio, a Solemn Indian of 46, set out again for Mexico City to look for work. Leaving his wife Margarita and two children, José, 10, and Consuelo, 13, in their tiny casita on the outskirts of Toluca, Canute boarded the Red Arrow bus, paid 31? fare to ride in to the capital. There, as he had done before, he read the "advices of opportunity" in the newspapers, spelling each word out slowly to himself...