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Word: bus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., uses a converted Greyhound bus as a mobile personnel office, sends it on week-long excursions to recruit female help from small towns in Minnesota and neighboring states. The bus is outfitted much like a railroad parlor car, with couches, tables and a galley. It enables Cargill to avoid setting up recruiting offices in motels, an arrangement that tends to make parents of prospective employees wary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: A Good Paper Shuffler Is Hard to Find | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium rests upon a slight, bright springboard: a bunch of American tourists undergoing a special kind of American masochism called nine European countries in 18 days. What could have been a Grand Hotel on wheels swiftly degenerates into a bus of fools, overpopulated with drooling Babbitts and hatchet-faced moms. Humor centers around the foreign John with its mysterious bidet and its waxy toilet paper. A sleazy double-entendre occasionally surfaces, as when the tour guide observes that the cockney word for sausages is (smirk) bangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bus of Fools | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...service's brochures state that the student-led tours will be personalized alternatives to the mass produced bus tours, with a maximum of 10 people in a group. Tours will last two to three hours, with the destinations depending on the specific interests of the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA to Conduct Boston Tours | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Mann said that unless the group is very small, the cost per person would not be greater than the Grey Line bus tours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA to Conduct Boston Tours | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Desolation Row. The brown wood panelling, the dirty floor, the floor is wet--how'd it get wet?--the glowing red coils of the hotplate, the gray throb of he lightbulb. The world is a bus terminal. Who makes it out to Desolation Row? Well, for a starter...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Last Stop. | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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