Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret service detail, took train in Washington one afternoon and traveled westward through Maryland and Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies and on to Chicago to address a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Presidential party rode as the second section of a regular train, not in an ordinary Pullman drawing room as on his trip to Chicago a year ago to attend the annual Live Stock Exposition...
...railway station to meet Mr. Garfield, and as he did so Garfield was shot. He was the only member of Garfield's Cabinet retained by President Arthur; so he served a full four years. Then he went back to law and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Ambassador. His four years in London were his last in public office. He was asked to run for Senator (in Illinois), for President, but declined to entertain the prospect. Instead he went back to the Pullman Co., and on the death...
Edward S. Jordan, President of Jordan Motors, pointed modestly to his battered car, to the magnificent Mercedes, to the fact that the Ford and Dodge Companies are using steel bodies. He declared that just as the old wooden Pullman cars have been discarded, so wooden automobile bodies will in a few years be obsolete. Said he: "It's the splinters that kill. . . . Steel laughs at shocks that demolish wood. . . . Smaller, lighter, more economical, better looking, longer lasting motor cars are coming...
Migrations of individuals and capital to Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...
...whistles blew. No bell sounded. Faster and faster it glided, past green lights at little stations, red lights at crossings; and the clicking of the ties became a dreamy foxtrot drumming in the ears of people who twisted on lumpy mattresses in small green coffins in its shadowy Pullman cars. A suddenly frightened fireman stared out at the flying night, then made his way forward and peered into the engine cab. At the throttle was a hand- the steady hand of Engineer William Vanbergen, but the body of Engineer William Vanbergen sagged on the floor, and a grey ooze trickled...