Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three corporals from a sergeant, five sergeants from a lieutenant. On the ground that few enlisted men, however lonely, would enjoy stepping out with a lieutenant, that rank is limited to older Belles, who mobilize the girls at San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium, whence they are dispatched by bus to the scene of operations: the Army Y.M.C.A., Fort Sam Houston, Brooks and Randolph Fields, etc. If a Belle is absent on duty nights, she is likely to lose her red-white-&-blue merit badge, be drummed out of the ranks...
...bring farm children to city parochial schools by bus even from distances up to 25 and 30 miles...
They found their man in Harry P. Edwards, a short-line specialist who had invented a gasoline-burning bus-on-rails, established the money-making Edwards Co. (motor railway cars). Edwards agreed to lease the A. & N.C. for $60,500 a year, began operating it under a new company called Atlantic & East Carolina Railway. North Carolinians still wonder whether he knew what a bad bargain he made. A. & N.C. stock was selling for $5 a share-only $1.63 more than the per-share amount of the annual rental he agreed to pay. In the first go days of his lease...
...Times has dropped its prewar Neville Chamberlain attitude it does not completely approve of that disturbing man Churchill. Suavely the Times scolds Churchill for hogging work, instead of sharing it, for failing to pick a successor in the event that "some accident of bus or bomb should suddenly remove him from the scene." After one such editorial Editor Geoffrey Dawson was warned that it would bring down a host of complaints. "That's all right," said he. "We don't mind a few complaints...
Unlike the two Harvard men who went in the bus with the group the other day because they expected a tour of the plant and a visit to the battleship Massachusetts, the youthful organizers take their work very seriously. And it's no job for the timid...