Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels he founded what is now La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens (The International Company of Sleeping Cars and of Great European Expresses). This firm, called Wagons-Lits for short, not only supplies individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them uninterruptedly across Europe and Asia. Longest (preWar) run under Wagons-Lits auspices was Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Irkutsk-Yladivostok. 7,800 miles. Bolsheviks stole all Wagons-Lits cars...
Dawdling en route last week, H. R. H. visited Germany for the first time since the War, led his merry friends right royally around Munich's industrial museum, sniffed perfume samples and grinned at the famed model furnished by Pullman Car Co. Not knowing what to do with the doll Negro porter, Munich museum authorities tucked him into an upper berth...
...Connelly has God leave Heaven four times ("I'll be back Saddy") in an effort to make Man do right, finally substituting Mercy for Might when He suffers with his Son on Calvary. Prior to one of his unsuccessful visits to Earth, "de Lawd" confides to Gabriel, his Pullman porter-like secretary: "De whole thing rests on my shoulders. I declare, I guess dat's why I feel so solemn and serious. . . . You know dis thing's turned into quite a proposition...
Last year a hustling little corporation with three big factories at Irvington, N. J. sold 1,000 miles of railroad track, 15,000,000 crossties, more sleepers than Pullman Co., more locomotives than American Locomotive and Baldwin Locomotive combined. New York Central's President Williamson had written the company a letter of enthusiastic praise. Baldwin Locomotive's Chairman Vauclain had even allowed himself to be photographed with his grandchildren in front of one of the company's sleek shiny locomotives. Railroad engineers themselves had openly admitted that its rolling stock was the best in the field...
...Danville, Va., operators of a "numbers'' game were bankrupt when the whole town took seriously a Pullman porter's dream that the number 805 was sure...