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...Around the corner of 13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus noises that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ordered the vehicles to take another route on Sunday mornings. Last Sunday the President worshipped in peace...
Three weeks ago the worst crash in U. S. air experience occurred at Newark, N. J. A Ford transport operated by Colonial Airways as a sightseeing bus smashed into a freight car. Thirteen passengers were killed instantly. A 14th died quickly. Only the pilot, Lou Foote, remains, bashed up, in a Newark hospital (TIME, March...
...popular timepieces recorded kilowatt instead of solar hours, Public Service Corp. 1928 earnings of over $22,000,000 would suggest bright lamps in New Jersey homes, savory roasts in New Jersey gas-stoves, whirring wheels in New Jersey factories. It would also suggest millions of trolley rides and bus rides on Public Service Corp. controlled lines. For Public Service Corp. power serves 82% of New Jersey's 3,821,000 population...
Federal Light & Traction Co. (light, heat and 12,000,000 bus passengers annually) net, $3,243,921. Previous year...
...declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them by sledge to the nearest railway station, Pechweke Peke...