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...that was to carry the delegates. No one in Travel had ever heard of a theater car; neither had the railroads. The man who made the request explained that it was a car equipped with theater seats, in which meetings could be held en route. Finally, someone in the Pullman Co. remembered that at one time they had equipped a theater car for a convention. It hadn't been used for 25 years...
...means of a forklift, thus making for quicker and more flexible handling than the old-fashioned "circus loading," by which trailers were rolled up a ramp at the end of the car. American Car & Foundry, Bethlehem Steel, Pressed Steel Car and others are ready to manufacture piggyback equipment, and Pullman-Standard has had 500 inquiries about its piggyback flatcar. In Battle Creek, Mich. Clark Equipment Co. is making huge forklifts for loading trailers on the cars...
...Bennett Archambault, 44, moved over from the M. W. Kellogg Co. (a Pullman Inc. subsidiary that builds equipment for oil refineries) to become president and chief executive officer of Stewart-Warner Corp. (lubricating equipment, television, electronic products, auto parts, heating plants, etc.). A Californian, Archambault grew up in Montana, attended Georgia Tech, graduated from M.I.T., joined Kellogg in 1935 and worked his way up to vice president and general manager. During World War II, he headed the European division of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, won U.S. and British decorations for pioneering new weapons and equipment...
...soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...
...Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus, ex-Pullman Porter Hildrus A. Poindexter, is a ranking authority on tropical diseases; N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930; a year before, Lincoln produced Poet Langston Hughes...