Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like cod into a seine, some 20,000 panting citizens swarm every evening into a converted cyclodrome at Boston's Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
...machinery. A chain of human beings, protective, silent, efficient, carried them from one hiding place to an other. For almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American flyers to his father's hospital. "He was the most loyal man I ever...
...landed in the Capital, his fever patriotically high, his eyes star-spangled, his shoes freshly whitened. He had pitched in to help win the war. Things looked different now. Now he cursed his Congressman, his tortured sinus, his lumpy boardinghouse bed, the humid streets, the dismal food, the bus service. Mostly, this week, he brooded about his tardy paycheck...
...minded, Earthbound. CAB, under this leadership, has managed to evolve a fairly clear program without serious opposition (though a low ceiling impends). This program is based on four principles: 1) railroads, bus companies, steamship lines and other common carriers must not be allowed to operate airlines (CAB thinks the spirit of the act which created it is opposed to their doing so, on grounds that they would retard aviation's progress because their primary interest has been non-aeronautic); 2) existing and future airlines must not be allowed to monopolize domestic or foreign routes; 3) the less government subsidy...
With the last two principles the airlines agree almost unanimously. Of the first, the now air-minded railroads, steamship lines, bus companies and trucking firms are contemptuous. Many of the 224 applications for new air routes piling up before CAB have been made by some of the biggest earthbound transportation companies. And an ever-expanding lobby in Washington is now working on Congress to revise the Civil Aeronautics Act specifically to permit such carriers to compete...