Iowa's Bus Queen: Helen M. Schultz and the Red Ball Transportation Company
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Iowa
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0003-4827,2473-9006
DOI: 10.17077/0003-4827.9845