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...expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...
...T.W.A. said that it would soon start an inexpensive "skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...
Dark-eyed Adela Velarde was 14 when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
...hotel, where he bought two local papers to read while eating breakfast. After picking up more "atmosphere" from the pre-game football stories, and checking over what he was supposed to pay particular attention to that afternoon, he enjoyed a nap ("I can never get much sleep on a Pullman...
...Hollywood-style, burning-eyed psychiatrist about Dr. Will as he greets friends or patients. He has a hearty Chamber-of-Commerce handshake (he belongs to the Topeka C. of C.), looks and acts like the safe kind of fellow a lonely traveler would pick to talk to on a Pullman club car. He lives with his attractive, intelligent wife (who teaches child care at Topeka's Washburn Municipal University) and three sons (Roy, 22, now at New York-Cornell University Medical College, Phil, 20, and Walter, 17) in an eleven-room, white clapboard Colonial house...