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Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA

Author(s): Walsh, Margaret
ISBN10: 0754602079
ISBN13: 9780754602071
Cover: Hardcover
 
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Table of Contents
List of Tables
vii
List of Figures
viii
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations
xvi
Introduction
1(16)
PART ONE MAIN ROUTES
From Jitney to Giant: The Early Growth of Long-Distance Bus Transport in the USA
17(15)
Missing Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA from the Second World War to Deregulation
32(43)
PART TWO REGIONAL HIGHWAYS
Tracing the Hound: The Minnesota Roots of the Greyhound Bus Corporation
75(14)
Iowa's Bus Queen: Helen M. Schultz and the Red Ball Transportation Company
89(17)
Minnesota's `Mr Bus': Edgar F. Zelle and the Jefferson Highway Transportation Company
106(31)
PART THREE ALTERNATIVE AVENUES
The Motor Carrier Act of 1935: The Origins and Establishment of Federal Regulation of the Interstate Bus Industry in the USA
137(17)
`See this Amazing America': The Long-Distance Bus Industry's Use of Advertising in its First Quarter Century
154(19)
Not Rosie the Riveter: Women's Diverse Roles in the Making of the American Long-Distance Bus Industry
173(14)
On and Off the Buses: 1940s Images from New York
187(32)
Bibliographical Essay and Bibliography 219(20)
Index 239

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