Word: pullman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Philadelphia was a downtown triumph again. Fourteen weeks before, Wendell Willkie had arrived in a Pullman seat, with "headquarters under my hat," had walked the streets unnoticed. Now, the arrival of his 14-car special train was the signal for Philadelphia to blow its top, for thousands to batter at police lines just to get a look at him. At night, before 30,000 people in Shibe Park, he again attacked New Deal management of National Defense, charged bluntly...
...Peter Cooper Corp., whose famed founder, a New York philanthropist (Cooper Union), was a glue pioneer. By 1930 he had bought competitors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Hammond, Ind., Springdale, Pa. and Brantford, Ont. He hated travel so much that he never spent a night in a Pullman car. So Gowanda became the U. S. glue capital...
Like G. E., like Pullman, Inc. (indicted in July), like Aluminum Co. (entering its third consecutive year in the courts), many of Arnold's corporate victims are vital cogs in defense. Arnold himself confesses that an anti-trust indictment, even if successfully defended, is itself a punishment, "a financial hazard which should not carelessly be imposed on business." It is also demoralizing to the executives indicted and takes their valuable time. Hence, with the Defense Commission seeking all the businessmen's cooperation they can get, the heat is on Arnold to go slow...
...talked far into the night. Prime Minister King slept in a Pullman bed in the compartment next to the President's, accompanied him to an Episcopal field service the next morning. At noon they issued a joint statement...
Authors Dollard & Davis sketched in their background with a few statistics: e.g., in Natchez the average Negro family's income is less than $400 a year; one child in three is a bastard. A Pullman porter rates as middle-middle class; a family with $250 a month is upper-middle class; more than three-fourths of Negroes are lower class; a Negro's social standing rises according to the lightness of his skin, the straightness of his hair. Case histories...