Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Shift. In Santa Monica, Calif., police charged that Edwin Kiedrowski, having noticed where a large bus was always parked for the night, had made off with it four times, operated a midnight-to-dawn service to Port Hueneme, 60 miles away, done a brisk business at 50? a passenger...
After World War I, U.S. railroads were lazy from lack of competition. Their idea of what-to-do-about-the-postwar-travel-boom was to see if the traffic would bear a 20% increase in passenger fares. They found out: the U.S. automobile and bus industries, then in swaddling clothes, grew up almost overnight, while the railroads started down the long toboggan toward the almost bottomless pit of 1932.* Last week Railway Age, in its annual Passenger Progress issue, published a survey of what railroad executives propose to do for the postwar passenger this time. Their "practically unanimous opinion...
...bus bars (electricity conductors), replacing copper. Aluminum and magnesium plants have borrowed tons of silver from the Treasury for this job, must return every ounce in five years...
...dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious...
Karl Horak lingered longer than usual over his glass of wine in a Prague café, and because he tarried, missed the bus that would have dropped him at his home town. No matter; he could walk; it was not far. He got a lift part way, then took a short cut through the woods...