Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bus to Exeter, the Yardlings elected Stan Britton, right end, captain...
...Denise Chambon it was a happy day. When the bac jurymen finished tabulating the results, Denise learned she had passed second on a list of twelve with an assez bien after her name. At her home her mother and bus-conductor father received the news proudly...
...Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
...apartments for the 1,300 employees to be moved, made reservations in 40 hotels to shelter the vanguard. To fill employees in on New York, Lever's prepared an 80-page guidebook on how and why the move was being made and crammed with shopping tips, subway maps, bus routes and commutation times and fares from the suburbs. Even the printing of this book went on in cloak & dagger fashion. Up until press time, no words which might tip things off appeared in the text (dummy phrases were substituted). At the last moment, the correct words were inserted, said...
Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through...