Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October Pullman Co. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to up its sleeping-car berth rates 20% when two passengers slept together.† Organizations of traveling salesmen protested. So did theatrical producers and agents who frequently send their chorus girls on tour "doubled up" in Pullman space. Last week the I. C. C. denied the increase...
...prime reason was that such an increase would automatically add to the surcharge of 50% already collected by the railroads from Pullman passengers. Declared the Commission: "Under the tariffs the second passenger in a berth does not occupy the space free. The sleeping car charge for a berth is for occupancy by two persons. If one person occupies a berth, that person is receiving less than the charge includes, but does not ... receive a reduction...
...been of a consistently promising calibre, the Big Green packs a dangerous threat in W. H. Morton, center ice, who piloted last Fall's melodramatic football eleven and vied with Wood for All American honors. Wood will again play opposite the New Rochelle flash when he assumes his regular berth as keystone man in the Crimson attacking line, flanked by Captain Cunningham and Baldwin...
...maid went to the police. Their assailant, said they, was slim, young, pale. His demeanor, even during the process of attempted assault was not discourteous. Perhaps he was a waiter or a steward. Accompanied by the police Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went aboard the Monarch of Bermuda. Hiding in his berth they found one Peter Paul Jencius, 18. On his head was the hatchet mark that Mrs. Pagenstecher's maid had blazed...
...next afternoon. Motor cars are set out into the up country hoping snow will fly in New Hampshire. In the Middle West small, angular cards with family crests announce small dances, big dinners. A special train slips out of the South Station and a saxaphone spills from an upper berth. It is the Christmas season...