Word: tracklessly
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...March 9, Seattle will vote whether to replace worn-out street cars by spend ing $12,500,000 for 240 trackless trolley and 135 busses built by Twin Coach Co. Last week, Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime bandmaster, had the American Legion hire a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...
Rest of the way is over the trackless sands. Lightness was therefore a prime consideration. E. G. Budd Co. followed the formula that has made it the most successful U. S. builder of lightweight streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been...
...trucks to rush food and supplies enabling the Government to nip floods and famines which have cursed China down the centuries. In times past Chinese have died not by the thousands but by the hundreds of thousands simply because their Government had no means to ship food over trackless wastes fast enough to let a province with a bumper crop feed a starving province...
...adventurers fleeing the monotonies of modern industrialism. Last week a suspicious reader, surveying a group of current books dealing with life near the North Pole, might have reached the conclusion that some astute press agent was handling publicity for the Eskimos, the Aurora Borealis and other features of those trackless wastes. Although all the books graphically picture the hardships of long winters and extreme cold, all make life in the North glamorous, exciting, heroic. And all three hymn the beauties of ardent and lovely Eskimo women who run wild through Greenland and are crazy about white...
...started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing a rescue party, they sped back to their car, found only a penciled note. Mother and daughter, unable after two days and nights to endure the heat any longer, had wandered off into the trackless sands in search of water...