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...office, sees the experiment as a reward for improved business in the Chicago branch during the past several years. Says he: "It's a large goose to morale. We can afford the risk of not everyone being here every day. People will cover for each other." In Houston, Pullman Kellogg, the big engineering company, has been on a 4½-day week since April, with the employees taking off at noon every Friday and making up for the lost production by working an extra 45 minutes on other days. In Florida, the state department of transportation is now allowing...
...open along the line's routes in the next five years. That would add 33 million tons a year to the system's coal freight, 50% more than its present volume. All that will require more coal cars and enhance the revenues of railroad-equipment manufacturers like Pullman...
...ample refrigerator, a two-burner electric stove, two hot-water heaters, a sink, color TV, an AM-FM radio, a cartridge and tape stereo system, and an auxiliary generator to run the appliances. The cabin, with 115 sq. ft. of living space, can accommodate eight passengers on comfortable Pullman seats, plus another deadheader beside the pilot in the cockpit. The seats are convertible at mealtimes to make two tables for six. After nightcaps, tall stories and Mary Hartman, the cabin becomes a comfortable dormitory for four (other guests can camp out under the canopy or the stars). With...
...Donnell pays attention to the way people talk. His play takes place at a summer camp run by Otis Demarest. This middle-aged booster's Camp Edgewater is his idea of paradise, the kind of paradise sunny types have tried to pass off on campers since pullman cars first began to take troops of babies to synthetic Shangri-Las in the Berkshires and Poconos. Otis speaks exclusively in smiley cliches, trying to convince both his counselors and his campers of a dream of innocence that only he sees. Like almost everyone else in the play, he can never say just...
...Communist suppliers to seventh. The ranking is unlikely to change, because the Soviets are buying from other countries even more eagerly than from the U.S. Moscow last year bought four artificial fertilizer plants from the U.S.; it ordered the next 13 from Western Europe and Japan. Pullman Corp. was one of the first U.S. companies to land a big contract in the Soviet Union when it won the job of designing the foundry for the huge Kama River truck plant. But, says Donald Morfee, Pullman's vice president responsible for Soviet operations, "We cannot expect business to continue...