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Donald E. Pullman, a home-improvement contractor, is facing a herculean labor. In the dead of several nights, someone dumped some 8,000 worn-out automobile tires on his one-acre building lot in Herndon, Va., near the Fairfax-Loudoun county line. The authorities threatened Pullman with a jail sentence or a $300 fine for operating an illegal dump unless he quickly got rid of them...
Normalization. The second mark of progress in U.S.-Soviet trade was made by Pullman Inc., which reported that it had become the first American industrial company to get permission to open an office in Moscow.* The Chicago-based company will be entitled to hire Soviet staff members and keep three U.S. employees in Moscow. Pullman has sold designs for five ammonia plants to the Soviets, and last December its Swindell-Dressier division won a $10 million contract to design the foundry of the huge new Kama River truck plant in the Tatar Republic. Says President Samuel B. Casey: "We expect...
...quite agree with your Essay on the need to complain more. My complaint is about your tale of the "bedbug letter." This one is at least as old as TIME. It used to involve a complaint about bedbugs in Pullman cars...
...most valuable player at the ECACs in which he outshone last year's captain Joe Cavanaugh, a three-time All American himself. Hynes was the only Harvard player to make the squad, with goalie Dan Brady, defenseman Bob Brown and center Jack Danby, of B.U., Cornell's center Larry Pullman, and Clarkson defensman Steve Warr...
...walrus mustache; of emphysema; in Hollywood. He went to work for Mack Sennett in 1913 and was soon thriving on pratfalls and pies in the face. While at the top, he earned $3,500 a week appearing in scores of films, including Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Pullman Bride and Modern Times. "Moviemaking was great fun then," recalled Conklin. "A picture consisted of a lot of chases and a plot that was tacked on when we finished shooting." All but wiped out by the advent of talkies and the 1929 stock market crash, Conklin wound...