Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England has gone completely helicopter-happy. Last week the Boston, Worcester and New York Street Railway Co. (Massachusetts bus line) applied to CAB for a postwar helicopter service. Others who plan to blanket New England with helicopter service-Northeast Airlines, Greyhound Corp., Vermont Transit, White Circle Bus, the Checker Taxi Co. of Boston, and famed merchants William Filene's Sons...
Common Carrier. In Salem, Ore., outraged Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of waiting passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...
...train was late. When he arrived at Manchester, the last bus had gone. Through the blackout, with air-raid sirens wailing, he walked four miles home. His family had all but given him up. The children, Joyce, 8, Frank, 7, had been put to bed. Lily, his wife, unwilling to muss her new marcel wave before he saw it, waited, and kept ready...
...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
...next year according to an Investment Bankers' Association estimate, railroad funded debt will be down to $8 billions, almost a third less than in 1932, when fixed charges were 30% higher than railway operating income. With this new financial freedom of action assured, airlines and bus lines full of plans for a postwar passenger boom could well ponder the warning words ot the jubilant railroad man who told Railway Age last week: "Our competitors who are anticipating a walkover in taking traffic from the railways are in for a most unpleasant surprise...