Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note in the April 29 issue of TIME under Medicine an article relating to the practice of sleeping with one's head forward on Pullman cars...
...Pullman (Wash.) after J. L. Blalock had showed off before an auction crowd by stepping up to a bull and knocking him silly with a right to the jaw, police charged Blalock with wearing brass knuckles under his glove...
Pennsylvania R. R., which completed electrification of its entire New York-Washington passenger service month ago at a cost of $200,000,000, put in service last week the first of 57 new streamlined electric locomotives which cost $250,000 each, can haul a heavy Pullman train 90 m.p.h. Pennsylvania hopes to save $7,250,000 a year in operating expenses through electrification, points with pride to its passenger traffic which last year showed a gain for the first time in a decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time...
...there a rational physiological explanation for having a Pullman passenger's head in the direction of motion either for sleep or when awake? Most persons in riding on a train prefer to sit facing forward. But in sleeping in a berth the head is by choice placed toward the front of the train. In ambulances it is also routine for the head of the patient to be at the front of the conveyance. This brings to mind the practice of Charles Dickens and other Victorian notables of carrying a compass and having the hotel bed placed with the head...
Capt. Musick and his men stepped from the ship as jaunty and fresh as if they had just had an overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway...