Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pullman's Pride," 3.7-pound White Leghorn hen, went to Washington State Agricultural College, where she learned to eat standard college laying-rations. Last week she laid her 337th egg in 365 days, nearly a world's record...
Died. William Seward Webb, 75, railroad builder, (Wagner Palace Car Co., now the Pullman); at Shelburne...
...violation of an injunction. Back of this event was the story of an Indiana grocery clerk, a locomotive fireman, who became the organizer of the American Railway Union, who twice made the nation feel the fist of unionized labor. The second time was the great strike against the Pullman Co. in 1894 when President Cleveland had to despatch troops to Chicago to quell the riotous bloodshed. Eugene Debs and three others, indicted for conspiracy against the Government, were successfully defended by Clarence S. Darrow. Later Mr. Debs defied an injunction?and that is why he found himself in Woodstock...
After lunch the squad, coaches and managers left by bus for. White River Junction, where they boarded a special Pullman car to complete the journey to Cambridge by train. The busses pulled out amid the cheers of 1100 students and the playing of the college band. Practically the entire student body of 2200 students and the band will leave on two special trains at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. An athletic holiday has been granted over the week end so Hanover will be a deserted village tomorrow night...
...Pullman. For the year terminating July 31. 1926, the Pullman Co. netted $14,296,611, equal to $10.58 a share. Last year's net profits were $13,771,976 ($10.20 a share). Simultaneously the Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Pullman Co., reported...