Transport: Nitecoach

The discomforts of all-night bus travel, amply publicized in 1934's prize cinema, It Happened One Night, are familiar to most U. S. citizens. But few Easterners know that, since 1929, Pacific Greyhound Lines has operated a sleeper-bus service up the West Coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This week Pacific Greyhound will give midlanders a taste of high-way sleeping when it opens "nitecoach" service from Los Angeles to Kansas City —first daily cross-country sleeper-bus in the U. S.

The 1,500-mi. run will take 52 hr. — 6 hr. less than the old schedule....

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