Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen planes, from a giant Fokker with three motors, upholstered pullman chairs and a baggage room, to Carrier Pigeon Planes not much bigger than dragonflies, rose from the Ford field at Dearborn, Mich., last week for a 1,900-mile trip. Edsel Ford flagged them away. He had put up a large silver trophy for the winner of this "Reliability Test." Planes were judged on the consistency of their performances. They buzzed steadily ahead, not trying for speed but just to see which could stick at it best. At Indianapolis they were met by rain, at Chicago by a cheering...
...traveling incognito in a light grey join cloth and modest brown sandals had the misfortune to be recognized everywhere he went. Fleeing at last in desperation to the Grand Central Station, he vanished like smoke. It is believed that by carrying his own luggage he disguised himself as a Pullman porter and is even now collecting small odd specimens of American gold to take back with him to the coast of Africa...
...Mack Rail Car" has an all-steel Pullman body, weighs about 30 tons and is over 54 feet long...
...Yellow Taxi) 8,316 Mrs. John Hertz 5,215 Alanson B. Houghton 32,404 Charles E. Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden 14,736 A. Lawrence Lowell (Harvard).... 36,566 Cyrus H. McCormick 269,036 Ganna Walska McCormick 12,632 Harold F. McCormick 168,276 John J. McGraw 2,544 Clarence H. Mackey 320,490 Edward B. McLean 255,729 Dwight W. Morrow 290,344 Pola Negri 15,108 Meredith Nicholson...
...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...