Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brass gleaming, its larder bursting and its water tanks brimming, the private Pullman car Roald Amundsen glided softly out of Manhattan one afternoon last month behind the New York Central's westbound Commodore Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank...
...talked of Dr. Pease's successful campaign in 1909 to have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice of arresting subway smokers on the spot, or the occasion when he struck a cigaret from the lips of a fellow-passenger in a Pullman washroom. When the 40 had drained their glasses of grapefruit juice, up rose Mrs. Audrey Fiedler to tell how Dr. Pease adopted her four years ago, saved her from eight drug-dosing physicians...
...capacity" during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. A moderately successful Springfield, Mass. businessman, he went to Pittsburgh with the Army Ordnance during the World War. There he met the Mellons and the Mellons liked him. They made him successively president of Standard Steel Car, and, in 1930, chairman of Pullman, Inc., where he represented the Mellon interests...
During the Kentucky Derby last May all of Pullman's private cars were chartered but usually about only four are in transit simultaneously about the country. If a tycoon prefers his own car, Pullman will build it for him, as it has done for 226 people and companies in the past, at a cost of $65,000 up. Henry Ford spent $200,000 on his Fair Lane. Last private car built was the Wanderer, for the late Harry Payne Whitney...
...would be difficult to assemble a more impressive aggregation of wealth than is represented by the men on Pullman's board: J. P. Morgan and his partner George Whitney; Richard K. Mellon and two Mellon lieutenants; George F. Baker and a vice president of his First National Bank; General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery. President of Pullman is David Anderson Crawford, a husky, popular gentleman of 55 who works hard and plays money-golf in the low 80's. During the winter at Chicago's University Club he plays racquets with...