Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Right. In Portland, Ore., steaming passengers on a stifling city bus found that all the heaters were going full blast. The driver felt fine, explained that he was just back from long service in the sweltering Pacific...
...Well, Well, Phil Small." Burnham (pop. 643) is little more than a crossroads. Rain was pouring down when Small alighted from the bus in the dawn and dragged his bag over to the general store. Old Frank Cunningham, town jack-of-all-trades, was standing there. Said Cunningham: "Well, well, it's Phil Small." In Cunningham's battered coupe, Phil Small drove off cross-country through the rain...
...bus bounced across north Szechwan, Tso Tsen-hwa, tax collector for the Chinese Government, sat squeezed among his fellow passengers and their luggage. Suddenly the brakes screeched. Outside were eight bandits...
...bandits counted out $120,000 from their loot. Solemnly the tax collector gave them in return the official $4 tax stamps. Then the bandits made off for the hills. Tso Tsen-hwa and his fellow passengers climbed back into the bus, continued on their...
...York City, Boston and Charleston, thousands of men piled down the gangplanks, lugging barracks bags, German sabers and helmets. They wolf-yowled at the WAC bands, kneeled to make the sign of the cross. One G.I., debarked to a bus, impetuously obeyed his resolve to kiss the first American girl he saw (see cut). The bus de-bussed them before they could even exchange names...