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...Pullman. For the year terminating July 31. 1926, the Pullman Co. netted $14,296,611, equal to $10.58 a share. Last year's net profits were $13,771,976 ($10.20 a share). Simultaneously the Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Pullman Co., reported...
Traveling salesmen who swelter in upper berths have often jawed in stuffy washrooms about "these doggone high Pullman rates." In particular they suspected some sort of capitalistic iniquity in the item of a 50% Pullman surcharge accruing to the railroad...
Even the Interstate Commerce Commission poked into Pullman Co. finances. Its investigation report last week showed that the company had reduced its rates 20% in 1911, that it had increased them 20% in 1920, that in reality, "the general level of charges is no higher today than it was a half century...
...westward across the continent, the light of countless theatrical facades prick out his name in lights like little yellow dollars. "Loew" they twinkle, "Loew" they wink; they seem to be calling him, and for a while Marcus Loew responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace of the late and notorious Captain De La Mar, mineral millionaire. There, with miles of lawn, a garage as big as a depot, a private golf course, a swimming pool, he enjoys thg amenities that life offers...
...oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and president of the Pullman Company...