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...happen, and there was nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
During the day the gashed body of a river captain floated up, and a diver brought up the corpse of a woman. Other dead, found when the bus had been raised by cranes that night: two men, ten women...
Even with gasoline at a new war price of $1.20 per gal. many Italians continued to drive their cars, but the Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State...
...Hertz took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around the streets, painted them yellow, cut fares from 40? to 20? a mile. He organized additional Yellow Cab companies, at one time controlled 95% of U. S. cabs outside New York. He also went into the taxicab, bus and truck manufacturing business with the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. and started the Hertz Drivurself hired-car system. In 1925 he sold the manufacturing and Drivurself business to General Motors for $43,000,000, also disposed of his Yellow Cab holdings...
...diverted from his routine that he goes not to the office but forthwith to a very low pub where he falls in with a group of down-at-the-heels race track touts. It has been Erwin's harmless amusement as he daily rides the Ozone Park bus to dope out the day's horse races and figure up his paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin...