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Twenty-three gold star mothers, with large placards on their bus telling who they were, drew up at a St. Mihiel battle graveyard last week. As the ladies stepped out they were surprised to find eleven gentlemen standing at stiff military attention by the side of the road. Nothing had been said about an official welcome at the cemetery. Pleased nevertheless, the mothers smiled, nodded, beamed. The eleven gentlemen remained stern and straight for a moment, then removed their hats, bowed stiffly from the waist, entered automobiles, drove quickly away...
Baltimore & Ohio (whose motor bus service for passengers from Manhattan to its Jersey terminals has raised a national railroad issue: the right of a railroad to provide such service. The I. C. C., which has already ruled against such service in freight traffic, is studying its legality in passenger traffic...
Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, who commanded the first airplane to fly from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii, motoring near San Antonio, smashed into a bus, suffered lacerations of the face, concussion of the brain, a lung punctured by a spoke of the steering wheel...
Greyhound Lines began by losing money, and Wickman sent Orville Swan Caesar to build it up. Once a mechanic's helper, Mr. Caesar entered the bus business by operating a taxi fleet in Superior, Wis., then a small stage line which was later bought by Northland Transportation. He made Greyhound Lines prosper, and as a result now, at the age of 37, is U. S. bus tycoon, President of a corporation with an estimated investment of $16,000,000 and profits (last year), of $1,549,000. He rarely leaves motors and roads to putter on his yacht...
Greyhound Lines cover 36,000 miles of road, over which also travel Greyhound motorcycle patrolmen, inspecting roads and checking up on bus driving. Last year 2,264 Greyhound busses (average cost: $8,000), carried 18,000,000 passengers, went 100,000,000 miles, used 19,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Lest patriots feel Greyhound benefits from free highway use, the corporation points out that it pays over $1,000,000 in taxes a year, that the gasoline tax alone would maintain two coast-to-coast highways. Four thousand workers, trained in special schools, are employed. The company carries insurance...