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...Wilkins (No. 2), Pullman porter, was found dead near the railroad track between Atlanta & Macon. Obviously he had been removed from his train, murdered, but evidence of a lynching mob was lacking...
...Pullman Company of the freight transportation business. Al though only the fourth largest manufacturer of freight cars,* it is the largest owner and operator of freight cars ? 40,000 of them, which it leases out to various railroads. Of these, 45% are tank cars, the rest are divided principally among stock, glass-lined milk and refrigerator cars. The company through subsidiaries owns ten repair shops far-flung through out the U. S., operates 5,000 freight cars abroad, has the largest storage terminal in the U. S. (at Goodhope, La.?a town built by the company...
...Three largest are Pullman-Standard, American Car & Foundry, Pressed Steel Corp...
West: California i'. St. Mary, at Berkeley; Washington v. Idaho, at Seattle; Washington State v. Southern California, at Pullman. i GOLF...
...declining Spanish Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort in the fact that cathedral...