Show continental Trail ways make rapid strides in ten year period considering what was I 1 nally a 2300 texas bus operation continental Trail ways done too badly during the 10 year span from 1943 to 1953 the interstate commerce commissions decision friday to permit purchase of the mile american besline climaxed a period of growth and expansion that has pushed the original route mile total up to a startling miles extending from washington and new york to san diego and seattle and from chicago to new orleans and browns ville to bus travelers in the southwest this means that the american besline service from st louis through oklahoma city dallas ft worth pecos and el paso to san diego los angeles will now become a part of the network of continental service throughout the area continental will thus have for the first time a thru service to the west coast over the el paso gateway to add to their service thru amarillo and albuquerque it provides the dal las based company with a brand new service from st louis and chicago cast to pittsburg washington and new york added to this will be new continental service from chicago west to omaha salt lake city into san francisco and los angeles and the man who came to texas in 1943 to become president of what was originally bowen motor coaches is still doing business at the same desk as president of the far flung transportation empire known to the public as continental trail ways it took M E moore about four years to whip his original company into a financial position where he could start expanding he changed its name in 1945 he merged it with dixie motor coaches and santa fe trail ways in 1947 bought the rio grande motorway from the D R G railroad in 1948 and then started working on the american properties in 1950 this past week the finance Serc tion of I 1 C C in effect agreed that he had done a good job as they approved his com banys a purchase of american through an interchange of common and preferred stock and the agres sive attitude of continental is indi indicated rated that while the american application to the I 1 C C was by far the largest in scope it was only one of the five that moores company has on file for purchase approval other pending applications include 1200 mile crescent stages in alabama tennessee and georgia central bus lines 1 in n tennessee and kentucky a s segment of Miss missouri ourt transit between st louis and moberly and cannonball stages in new mexico an idea of what the contin dental Trail ways operation has grown into at the end of 1952 is shown in their of passenger miles operated W with ith a gross revenue exceeding and now the arn am operations are added to those figures other officers of the company all of dallas include T S reece L C burch jr and A J emory vice president carl B callaway general counsel M S maloney secretary treasurer tre a s u r e r and T L vaughn assistant to the president |