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...repeated again and again, "Horrible, horrible!" With the nation economically depressed the R-IOI'S loss seemed to strike brutally deep into Britain's present pessimistic psychology. People gathered on street corners to ask each other WHY? They had known the R-IOI affectionately as "The Old Bus," looked upon her as a vital link in the new, swift transportation chains of Empire...
Elected. To the presidency of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College: Col. Albert Thompson Perkins, vice president of City Utilities Co., St. Louis bus owners, onetime president of the Associated Harvard Clubs of the U. S., holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and Britain's Order of St. Michael & St. George. In 1887 Col. Perkins was graduated by Harvard, magna cum laude. He started then with the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, became a leading force in St. Louis railroading. He was an adviser to many cities on their terminal systems. He brought the United Railways (St. Louis street cars...
...Jamaica, L. I., Frank La Carta, laborer, boarded a bus filled with theatre-goers, began to amuse himself by blowing smoke rings into their faces. Driver John Reiss asked La Carta to throw away his cigaret. La Carta refused. John Reiss stopped the bus, prepared to take La Carta to the street. La Carta knocked John Reiss against a window-glass, which crashed. La Carta then ripped off a section of the guard rail, flailed about him, pursued John Reiss. While women shrieked, men went to John Reiss's aid, pummeled La Carta until Jamaica police reserves came...
...likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many years through Chicago's crosstown streets. A special bus, No. 55, is known as "The Presidential Coach" and is always kept ready...
...from military to civilian life if the U. S. air industry pursues its present policy. After enjoying the social prestige of the service uniform, most flyers will hesitate before changing to a status which commercial operators hope to make comparable-in respectability, responsibility and pay-to that of the bus chauffeur and locomotive engineer...