Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking fell back to horse & buggy days. High officials began riding rickshas to set a good example; Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and War Minister Ho Ying-chin apologized publicly for the extravagant motoring of subordinates. The Minister of Communications set up a "bus" line of brightly painted two-wheel carts drawn by stubborn little Szechwan ponies. Most commercial trucks and private cars were withdrawn from the road...
...found a British liaison officer, who was driving a bus, trying to pick up wounded from the fires, trying to get food to the Chinese division to which he was attached-doing many jobs at once in the coolest manner...
...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...
This incident, or one notably similar, actually took place last summer in Toronto. Two girls were talking in a bus and one remarked that she was making very good money in munitions and would like to see the war go on for a long time. A middle-aged woman across the aisle hauled off and socked her. The sockee demanded that the conductor stop the bus and get a policeman. When the policeman asked the other passengers what the disturbance was, nobody on the bus had noticed a thing...
...Civil Aeronautics Administration), CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) manage air transport; ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) and WSA (War Shipping Administration) work out war transport by rail, truck, bus and ship...