Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Womanhandled. In Seattle, Longshore man Roy C. Pruett filed suit for $10,000, claimed he "suffered severe nervous shock . . . was battered, hurled, jerked and bruised" when he was thrown from a bus by Woman Driver Dorothy Castagno...
...home in the postwar sky, have still to hedgehop one major obstacle: the cost. The price per helicopter may not fall below $5,000 for some time after war's end. Actually Sikorsky men see their first postwar market as "feeders" to airlines, and for short-flight air "bus lines." Bus lines see this too. Already 70 of them have filed applications with the Civil Aeronautics Board to operate helicopter bus lines...
...soldier seriously wounded near Palermo rides five miles by bus every evening from the convalescent section at Forest Glen, Md. He has missed only two services. "I was out there, he says. "I was with them. The least I can do for them now is to pray for them...
...controls a large chunk of it. The Skouras brothers climbed together. All were born in Skouro-chorion, Greece (meaning: Skourasville). Charlie came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters' Hotel. They soon saved enough to buy a nickelodeon and a second-hand wrestling mat. They made money running the movie nights and kept fit by wrestling in the mornings. Charlie shucked off persistent film salesmen with the challenge: "I'll rassle...
...suggestion, he began calling up housewives at random, explaining the proposal to them in five-minute chats. On the Saturday before election he drove an old-fashioned horsecar, drawn by two white horses, for a two-mile trip along Market Street. The car was followed by a modern bus from which a loudspeaker blared: "I've been waiting for a streetcar all the livelong...