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Just under the building’s gable roof, a clock shows 10 minutes to 8; the morning bell will ring soon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough vehicles dedicated to transporting children to and from school have operated since the late 19th century, it was only in 1930 that the modern, enclosed, steel school bus came into being. And it was in 1939 that “National School Bus Chrome” first became the vehicle’s standard color. That year, a group of state transportation officials and bus and paint manufacturers gathered at Columbia University’s Teachers College, in New York City, to develop safety and fabrication standards for school buses. The group tested various colors and determined that black lettering showed most legibly on yellow, especially in the dim light of dawn or dusk. 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Besides providing reliable and safe transportation—a child is about 70 times safer riding the bus than being driven to school in a car—these buses keep millions of cars off the road, saving billions of gallons of gasoline and preventing millions of pounds of harmful carbon dioxide emissions. Yet each bus remains its own little world, where countless childhood dramas play out, friendships form and dissolve, and daydreams are dreamed as the landscape passes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtist Steve Wolf worked with art director Greg Breeding and designer Mike Ryan to create this stamp, which will be sold in panes of 20 and coils of 100.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe words “ADDITIONAL OUNCE” on this stamp indicate its usage value. 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