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...boss of the Greyhound Corp., Orville Swan Caesar, 61, heads the biggest transportation system in the world (10.6 billion passenger-miles traveled last year). But he is still not satisfied. Last week he announced "the start of a new era," ushered in by a new bus. Next month the first of 500 Scenicruisers, costing $25 million, will start rolling off the line at General Motors Corp. and go into service between New York and Miami...
...drawing boards since early in World War II, the $50,000 Scenicruiser incorporates some features first intro duced last year in Greyhound's Highway Traveler (6-ft., nonglare picture win dows, a compressed-air suspension system for easy riding), adds some brand-new ones of its own. The 40-ft. long, split-level bus carries 43 passengers, has a washroom, a new air-conditioning and heating system and twin diesel engines...
With his new buses, Caesar plans to push Greyhound's fast-growing special services such as charter buses, package express shipments and all-expense tours around the U.S. A fortnight ago, he started his first sleeping service between San Francisco and Chicago, which includes four overnight hotel stops in the fare. Price: $69.40 with a single room, $62.90 in a double room...
...prize is the $10 million bus terminal in Chicago, hub of Greyhound's 96.010-mile web of lines. The results of Greyhound's expansion program showed up in last year's record sales of $245 million, up 7%, and a gain in net income from $13.6 million in 1952 to $13.8 million...
...painter and is worth a fortune, so he places himself in the hands of a grafter who offers him a life of ease, only to lose the very skin off his back. In Mr. Feasey, two earnest cheats bet all their money on the ringer they enter in a greyhound race, but the 17 bookies who take their bets prove to be just as imaginative and crooked as they...