Word: bus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capitulation. The contagion of defiance spread from below ground to the surface. Passengers refused to board a London bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The bus was promptly cleaned. Newspapers cheered on the mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss...
...Atlanta, U.S. Judge Frank A. Hooper heard the complaint of two Negro ministers, decided that segregated seating on city buses was unconstitutional in light of the Supreme Court's Montgomery bus decision. Atlanta becomes the third Southern city (with Montgomery and New Orleans) ordered to integrate buses; 26 other cities have desegregated voluntarily...
Pedagrog. In Onerahi, New Zealand, an ad for Teacher's whisky is on the side of a school bus...
...regardless of the cause of death. The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, show that heart disease occurs in inverse ratio to the heaviness of work. Large, healed scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks) than in heavy workers (boilermakers, dock laborers, coal hewers). Most striking, such scars were four to five times commoner among light workers in the 45-59 age group...
Over the past ten years, air freight, parcel post, bus and truck lines have cut into the Railway Express business. (To pick up 100 Ibs. of furniture in New York City and deliver it in Chicago via Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...