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Word: greyhounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the church, one of four New Mobe reception centers for out of town marchers, are two lines of people. One pours from Greyhound buses into the center. The other files out of the center into yellow school buses heading for Arlington Cemetery and the March Against Death...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Reception Centers Fight Chaos As the Marchers Keep Pouring In | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

When The Vixen made its debate in Washington this summer, it attracted little attention outside the regular circle of skin-flick fans who hang out in the city's 14th Street theater district. Vixen opened in a movie house across the street from the Greyhound bus station, and on nights in early July there was a steady line of soldiers stretching across the street from the station into the theater...

Author: By Jim Fallows, | Title: Animals The Vixen | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., uses a converted Greyhound bus as a mobile personnel office, sends it on week-long excursions to recruit female help from small towns in Minnesota and neighboring states. The bus is outfitted much like a railroad parlor car, with couches, tables and a galley. It enables Cargill to avoid setting up recruiting offices in motels, an arrangement that tends to make parents of prospective employees wary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: A Good Paper Shuffler Is Hard to Find | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Enough for Both. To protect himself against General, Prince sought an alliance with still another empire, called Greyhound, which derived its power from transporting people in buses. Greyhound was willing to pay more than General, and Billy urged his supporters to accept its beneficence. Many of them did, but even more accepted General's new offer, which was even richer. Soon Greyhound owned one-third of Armour, and General more than half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Greyhound and General argued over who was going to rule it, but the antagonists quickly realized that the kingdom was big enough for both of them. They called a meeting and asked Billy to abdicate. When he refused, they threatened to take him before the high judges. Rather than risk a fight that he was likely to lose anyway, Billy-still a prince in name and by no means a pauper-gave up his throne last week. After his abdication, the Trustbusters said that they would nonetheless try to stop General from taking over the empire. But Prince was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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