Word: pullman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President in sparkling fettle for the weekend's fun. In a light grey suit and soft tan hat he was off from the White House at 8:40 a.m., behind a motorcycle escort. His car companions: Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, former presidential press secretary Steve Early (now of Pullman Co.), Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, gabby Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's aide...
...CORCORAN Pullman, Wash...
...would have the passengers on his side. He knows how they grouse at changing trains. Said he: "It's disgraceful. Hogs get better service than passengers; they don't have to change cars." This week Bob Young and Otis & Co. offered $70 million-odd for 7,098 Pullman Co. cars...
Travel. ODT refuses to guess when Pullman restrictions will be lifted. Others' guesses: 60 to 90 days. Air priorities, tighter now, will continue until airlines get more craft and crews. The shipping squeeze precludes much weekend cruising or transatlantic traveling. More bus equipment is on the way. Toledo to Topeka by taxi is again possible-if the tank stays...
...just leased from RFC the $21-million. 24½-acre. Bustleton war plant (in which Budd has produced planes and munitions for two years) for his famed auto-body and streamlined train-building company. Budd's lease had set a reconversion mark for U.S. industry (particularly Competitor Pullman); no other company had taken over a plant so big from the war-industry plants now on the block, and reconverted...