Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the crush was so bad that customs officers asked Windsor police to detain U.S. shoppers until the jam on the Detroit side cleared. Then they were released in groups of 50 aboard the Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus. On the U.S. side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. He listed 17 critical items whose production must be stepped up 19% (tanks) to 300% (60mm. and 81-mm. mortars). Some others: heavy artillery ammunition (89%), airborne radar (32%), field and assault wire (50% plus), dry-cell batteries (27%), heavy-duty truck and bus tires...
Then he caught a bus to Manhattan and spent the day in Times Square, weaving all afternoon from bar to bar. That evening, in the middle of theatertime traffic, the gun proved useful again. He stepped on the running board of a passing car and scrambled into the seat beside the startled driver, Manhattan Lawyer Robert P. Lord. "Keep quiet," Mike said, "I'm going with you." He gave Lawyer Lord directions for driving to Newark, left him $2 in cab fare, but took $8 in bills, a $333 check and Lord's car. "I bet you think...
...Like That? In Buffalo, 30 passengers on an intracity bus, stranded in the snow, got out, huffed & puffed, got it going, watched helplessly as the bus drove off without them...
Prince Orizu is so literate that he has no time for the movies or dancing, once missed an appointment because he read himself to the end of the line in a Manhattan bus. His idol is Patrick Henry, one of his favorite words is American philosophy's "pragmatism," and he does not like to be called "chief." Pragmatically, Orizu has not yet decided whether polygamy, which was good enough for his father (at least 170 times a groom), is good enough...