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Other trainloads of soldiers went through the same sort of experience-and they all griped. It did not cool them off to see civilians whizzing by in air-cooled Pullmans, or to hear a rumor that German prisoners of war were also riding in Pullmans. P.O.W.s ride in Pullmans only when they are certified as ill; Italian Service Units sometimes get Pullman service...
...just leased from RFC the $21-million. 24½-acre. Bustleton war plant (in which Budd has produced planes and munitions for two years) for his famed auto-body and streamlined train-building company. Budd's lease had set a reconversion mark for U.S. industry (particularly Competitor Pullman); no other company had taken over a plant so big from the war-industry plants now on the block, and reconverted...
...that a poll of airline travel card holders shows TIME far and away their first choice magazine, and so many of you also traveled by ship that similar polls show TIME way out in front as the favorite magazine of cruise passengers. (Another 142,800 of you traveled by Pullman-and the next Thursday you happen to be on a Pullman yourself you might look around and see how many more of your fellow travelers are reading TIME than any other magazine...
Spare the Rods. In Salem, Mass., a young mother asked to check her sleeping baby and carriage in a railway baggage car, confided, "I hate to spoil him so young by letting him ride in a Pullman." A Summer's Tail. In Atlanta, a police man held up traffic for what he thought was a funeral procession, let 18 cars pass, all driven by women, then found they were all tailing a heavily loaded meat truck...
Where the original play opens in the Caribbean monarch's castle, the cinema version goes back to fill in what O'Neill left to the imagination. Covering his days as a pullman porter, his murder of a vindictive rival, his escape from a chain gang, and usurping of power on a tropical isle. "Emperor Jones" is almost over before O'Neill's story begins...