Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three afternoons a week the boys who have elected the flying course drive out to Lufbery in a dilapidated bus. While waiting their turn to go up with Vroom and his licensed instructors, they do academic lessons under Keep's supervision. Back at school, they go over the day's experiences for the benefit of the younger students...
Miss Jean Arthur is a personable young New Yorker on a gruesomely predigested bus tour of the prewar West. The tour begins to interest her when, at a rodeo, bronco-busting John Wayne falls on, and all but busts, her. The pair recuperate in a deafening Western barroom, involve themselves in a saloon free-for-all, settle down to their essential business on a hay wagon and, after Miss Arthur misses her bus, in a sinister small-town hotel...
...route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
Line Upon Line, All Over Britain, War Workers Are Waiting For The Next Bus. With these bannerlines, Lord Beaver-brook's Daily Express opened war against a Government order reducing the number of busses on London lines...
Queueing workers complained to an Express reporter: 1) there are seldom special busses for workers from factories to distant railroad stations; 2) no extra busses for peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks...