Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, singing Embraceable You and I'll Never Smile Again. Says she: "I spent most of the time thinking up clever ways to lie down in a Greyhound bus." On one-night stands, she sometimes traveled 500 miles with her hair in pin curls and her evening dress over her arm so it wouldn't get mussed. The trick was to arrive in a town at 7 p.m., get your dress pressed and your hair fixed, and look fresh by 9 p.m. She thinks the training was tough but good: "If you can sing on one-night stands...
Wrong Bus. In Pittsburgh, officials of the American Bus Lines ordered summary removal of the latest addition to the terminal's jukebox: Love on a Greyhound...
...Lick, Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
...last we can say-'Travel for Pleasure.' " In newspaper ads the Greyhound Corp. bus lines thus caroled that the worst travel jam in U.S. history was about over. The Office of Defense Transportation chimed in. On Feb. 15, U.S. airlines can stop setting aside 70% of their eastbound transcontinental space for servicemen. On March 15, ODT restrictions on Pullman runs and on advance rail reservations will...
...Greyhound busses ran out of Birmingham, no meat was delivered in Albany, no caskets made at the Tennessee Coffin & Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...