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...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...
...opposition (but not planned that way, insisted David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...
...Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. was optimistic; Consolidated's engineers will be kept busy designing a wide range of non-flyable products. Example: last week Consolidated signed a contract with the Greyhound Corp. for the development of a super...