Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's W. C.T. U. Therefore he needed little preparation when he started out on his campaign on a platform opposing inflation, lotteries, Communism, crime, high taxes, war, and, above all, alcohol. Since he left his Manhattan home in June, he has traveled 25,000 miles in Pullman cars, visited 31 States, has only let five days pass without at least one speech. In some 300 addresses he has driven home his point that the Prohibition Party is the only party that "recognizes God as the source of good Government...
...Deal placed reliance. Last week, however, the one member of the Cabinet who has never been labeled a New Dealer was ordered to the stump in defense of the Administration. Obediently Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democratic classicist from Tennessee, packed his bag, boarded a Pullman headed for Minneapolis to speak from the very platform where Alf Landon spoke a fortnight earlier, to answer the attack which that Republican Nominee leveled at President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade agreements...
...evening last week climbed the world's most comfortable land transport plane. Aboard were 14 passengers, mostly bankers, bound for California and the American Bankers' Association meeting. As the plane shot west at 200 m.p.h. on a strong tail wind, they lolled on divans arranged in eight Pullman sections or walked up & down the corridor between the lavatories at the rear and the private compartment held by two of their number just aft of the cockpit. Presently the stewardess set up small tables in each section, served a hot seven-course dinner with regular silverware, crockery, linen. Some...
...from the corridor at the side. Each has a transverse sofa which converts into a bed. Six of the downstairs rooms have partitions which slide back, converting them into three double rooms. With airconditioning, indirect lighting, individual toilets, folding armrests, folding tables, the new cars are the most comfortable Pullman has yet produced...
Though streamlined, the new cars are so designed that they can be used along with old-style cars. As more of the new type roll onto the rails, railroads will be able gradually to build up complete streamlined trains. To demonstrate this idea. Pullman will send its new unit all over the U. S. attached for a week at a time to crack non-streamline trains, of which the Century was first...