Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voyage. In Liverpool, England, determined Traveler George Smith belatedly learned about British export laws, auctioned off at the pier his car and a greyhound, then learned that he could not take his earnings out, gave away his auction money...
Fifty additional buses will place the Greyhound Bus Company in a good position to handle its customers during the Christmas rush, the terminal manager asserted yesterday. He expected the passenger loads to be spread out, reaching their maximum on Wednesday. Hordes of students will jam the buses today...
With an average of five and one-half hours to New Haven, the Greyhound Bus Company claimed it had "plenty of seats" on its 18 trips...
...French-born engineer who parlayed a stake of 20? into a $3,000,000-a-year business in industrial designing. As one of the top U.S. industrial designers, Loewy's list of clients has grown to impressive lengths, including the Pennsylvania Railroad, Armour. Frigidaire, International Harvester, Lockheed, Greyhound, and 87 other big corporations. With a staff numbering less than 250, he has boldly taken on all comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes, locomotives, ships, department stores, pens, and thousands of other items. (Almost the only item he refuses to work...
...carrying passengers cheaply (1½ ? a mile) and as safely as railroads, Greyhound has grown into a holding company which controls 19 transportation systems under the Greyhound emblem-Atlantic Greyhound, Pennsylvania Greyhound (50% owned by Pennsylvania Railroad), Pacific Greyhound, etc. The systems have over 78,000 miles of routes, six times greater than the mileage of any single U.S. railroad, do some 40% of U.S. intercity bus business. Last year the company grossed $174 million, earned a net of nearly $20 million, and paid handsome stock dividends of $3.20 a share...