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...varsity football team flight to Ithaca has been cancelled unexpectedly and the squad will travel by Pullman tonight instead, it was learned last night...
Employee recreation got its start when Chicago Railroad Car Builder George Pullman passed out some baseball equipment to the men in his shop in 1883. By last year it had snowballed to the point where 30,000 U.S. companies spent $800 million on recreation-50% higher than in 1948. The National Industrial Recreation Association, organized by 14 companies in 1941, now has 300 members...
...drawn up for 1948. U.S. Steel dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor...
...collapsible, aluminum-frame tent that holds two sleeping bags and can be anchored atop an auto has been developed by Hagen-Felt Corp. of East Orange, N.J. The "CarTop Pullman," which weighs 76 Ibs., folds into a package 10 in. high and 5 ft. long when closed. Open, it is 4 ft. wide, 5 ft. high and 6 ft. 8 in. long. Price...
...Miss Lennie Green, 41, a Negro, daughter of a Pullman porter and a seamstress. As a child she fell in love with Latin and music, eventually won her master's at Atlanta University with a thesis on the letters of Pliny the Younger. An accomplished pianist, violinist and violist. Miss Green now teaches music at Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School, also gives piano lessons at home. Over the years she has set hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother...