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...Kansas City, saying, "Mother-in-law jokes annoy me; I like all my in-laws," Dr. Thomas Richmond took all his 26 kin by marriage on a two-week holiday trip to Colorado, all expenses paid, in an 18-passenger bus. two automobiles and a truck...
...same basis as Western Union's: charged to the sender's telephone bill. It arranged with several Standard Oil companies to have filling stations accept messages. It developed its radio business, modernized transmission equipment, spruced up its messenger boys. It sought additional revenues in the distribution of bus. theatre and airline tickets...
...contrary to custom, said that anyone who had to make an early edition could skip. Several dozen skipped. ¶ To Congress the President sent a message urging legislation to continue for another year the post of Federal Coordinator of Transportation, agreeing to postpone final coordination of railroad, water carrier, bus and air lines under a reconstituted Interstate Commerce Commission until the next session of Congress. ¶ Mme Lebrun, wife of the President of France, arrived in the U. S. on the Normandie's maiden voyage. Last week before returning on the same ship she visited Mount Vernon, Arlington Cemetery...
Schedules and equipment and operating personnel have not yet gotten down to a satisfactory state. . . . Our Western trip was canceled a few hours before departure because of motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built...
Despite the imperfections which are obviously due to the early stages of the business, these "sleeper buses" are far more comfortable both day and night than the conventional "parlor car bus," or the day coach of the railroads; are cheaper than even "tourist sleepers;" offer the great middle class of travelers a novel, adventuresome medium for the long journey from the coast to the Middle West; will no doubt be in the near future greatly improved and extensively used...