Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They had signed up to modernize Raglands department store on Texas' famed King Ranch (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947); they had just completed the first part of a face-lifting for Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers (cried Gimbels in full-page ads: "We are speechless"). Their new two-level Greyhound bus (the Scenicruiser) was being road-tested on Michigan roads. For California they were planning a state fair...
...five men left Cambridge at about midnight and were close to the Connecticut border at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday morning, they said. They flagged down a Greyhound bus and sent Dribben back to College to "get things ready," they said...
...line is not particularly huge, with the top lineman weighing but 225, and the second but 215. The Big Red instead has a fast line and especially a fast offensive line to go with their greyhound backs...
Floyd B. Odium, 57, slim, publicity-shy president of the octopoidal Atlas Corp., a Wall Street investment company. One of the nation's most spectacular financiers (e.g., RKO, Greyhound Lines), Odium has made a specialty of buying up control of companies, putting them in good running condition, then selling out at a handsome profit. A recent buy (1947): Consolidated Vultee (he is board chairman). Other Atlas interests: United Fruit, American & Foreign Power (a subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). A longtime Democratic angel, Odium was at first none too wild about Harry, but stoutly supported him. He gave...
Foreign air travel does not have to be that strenuous. Last week the thousands who flitted between the continents at high speed found plane riding at least as comfortable as a Greyhound bus, perhaps a little more confining, but with vastly more fun at the stopovers...