Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many thousands had enormous difficulty in getting to work. Bus schedules had been slashed way down. Retail deliveries were cut, from 10 to 100%; laundries, milk and other services were cut to a minimum. The people were ruled by ODT, checked up on by OPA and explained to by OWI. But the main thing...
...losing to Yale. The boys proved very good guests wherever they went, simply refusing to win on an opponent's court. They split two games with Yale, so the old grads were pretty lukewarm about it all. Hal Ulen had a good swimming team until Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen were graduated, and even after that things weren't bad. The boys upset Dartmouth one March afternoon, and Yale, in winning its usual tremendous victory, didn't look quite as good as its advance notices...
Johnny Weissmuller, unhurt in a bus crash, extricated another passenger from the wreckage; gunpowder from a prop revolver burned the hand of Erich von Stroheim. Reporting the incidents, the Los Angeles Daily News earnestly began: "Not all the heroism, nor all the pain is on Guadalcanal or in North Africa...
...Bus and A Manual at my feet...
...more U.S. citizens than ever before will ponder the hippopotamus, resting on his belly in the mud, will regard the hooded cobra, the shuffling, suddenly acrobatic chimpanzee, the reflective giraffe, the plaintively greedy bears. U.S. zoos expect the largest crowds in history. Reason: all zoos can be reached by bus, streetcar or A-cards...