Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englanders who once boasted of never having visited "touristy" Revolutionary landmarks are now setting out from Boston's Park Square, in horse-drawn busses, to visit Old North Church and Bunker Hill; now go by bus and train to see the Minute Man statue on Lexington's Green and Concord's "rude bridge that arched the flood...
Recently in a San Antonio bus I saw a Negro girl of about 18 ejected from the one remaining empty seat in the crowded vehicle, a seat next to a white woman. And ... it wasn't the white woman who raised the fuss but a soldier of the U.S. Army, sitting across the aisle! He threatened to report the bus driver to transit company officials if the girl wasn't made to move. There was no place to move to, so she had to stand next to the empty seat the remainder of her 30-minute ride...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, already choked with applications for new flying routes from U.S. airlines, last week disclosed that twelve land lines (truckers, bus operators and railroads) had also asked for permission to muscle into the airfreight business. The biggest: Chicago's fabulous Keeshin Freight Lines...
There were awards for dock laborers, trawler skippers, test pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
...Chamber of Commerce persuaded business offices to stagger working hours to ease peak loads on public conveyances. Philadelphia's OPA inspectors, quizzing 1,000 suspected pleasure drivers, found a surprising number of gas users on their way to (or just returning from) their grandmothers' funerals. Manhattan Sunday bus service was slashed deep: Fifth Avenue was empty...