Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Charles W. Morse, divorced wife of Pullman Conductor Charles F. Dodge, for 25 years the extraordinarily loyal wife of Charles W. Morse, 70, paralyzed financier, pardoned felon...
...efficient none the less. A very fast train whisked Mrs. Cyrus Jr. to Chicago in the record time of 16 hours, 55 minutes. Mrs. Cyrus Jr., or her husband, paid $7,037 for the ride. Mrs. McCormick, the only passenger, traveled with a full train crew. She tipped the Pullman conductor $50, the porter $30, a passenger agent $50. And that was all there was to that, except that a lone lady seldom hires a special train, as she would a taxicab, and the newspapers simply had to tell about it. There must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago...
...that the U. S. Post Office Transcontinental Air Mail service is "the most efficient and reliable of all the airplane transportation systems in the world." He admitted that he is building in Holland a gigantic, multimotored plane designed to do transcontinental passenger service between Manhattan and San Francisco, with Pullman-type berths for 35 to 40 sleepers. He accepted congratulations upon the performance of the Fokker Josephine Ford, first plane to circle the North Pole, bearing Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd U.S. N. (TIME, May 17, SCIENCE...
...XXVIII Eucharistic Congress comes to Chicago for a pentad of ecstasy the third week of June. Hundreds of thousands, at least a million, pilgrims will come. Lake boats and hotels and Pullman cars fitted with altars will transform themselves into ephemeral churches. Every Catholic family in the city has prepared itself to care for guests. So far as possible, foreigners (for thousands will come from abroad) will be housed with co-nationalists. The clergy will bunk in rectories?and in hotels. Honest innkeepers and food-purveyors have promised to maintain their regular charges...
...season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, breathed its last, and songsters, scenery, dancers and orchestra?enough to fill some 30 Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf...