Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullman, Inc., because people are again riding in Pullmans at the basic 3? per mi. rate and smoke is again rising from its Depression-deserted shops along Chicago's Cottage Grove Avenue: net profits of $6,-347,000, compared with a loss of $273,728 in 1935. General Foods Corp. (So branded items from oysters to nuts), with the best sales since 1929:net profits of $14,241,000,compared with profits...
...there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat Syrian terrain from, one of 17 windows. After a box supper, a native steward makes up the 14 upper and lower berths. To guard against sandstorms, the whole machine is airtight. To guard against temperatures varying from zero to 140° F., there...
...week United Air Lines inaugurated non-stop service between New York and Chicago with DC-3s outfitted along a new design which makes them the most luxurious in the world. Instead of 21 seats arranged in rigid rows, United installed 14 big swivel chairs, much like those in a Pullman, giving passengers more comfort and room to use such gewgaws as bridge tables, footstools, chessmen magnetized so they will not tumble in rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore...
...Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost of $10,500,000. For joint service between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Chicago & North Western ordered two 17-car, streamlined. Diesel-electric lightweight trains from Pullman and General Motor's Electro-Motive Corp...
...airplane quotations represent, in most cases, a 10 per cent reduction from twice the one-way fare. There is no reduction on round trip railway fares east of Chicago. The Pullman prices given are twice the one-way price for lower berths. There is no reduction for round trip. Upper berths are 80 per cent of the price of lowers...