Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Kentucky is now wet and liquor is sold by the glass. Next morning light showers fell, sending the odds down on long-shot mudders. By lunch time the track was already packed. And although Jailbird Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had been unable to attend with special Pullman-loads of friends & associates as of old, it looked like old times when the record crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from...
...were largely flimsy knick-knacks but the practical U.S. manufacturers promptly created a toy world modeled on the current industrial scene. Last week they had looms that wove, vacuum cleaners that swept, concrete mixers that mixed, washing machines that washed, dump trucks that dumped, foundries that spouted molten lead, Pullman cars with berths that made up. Buyers had a choice of 50,000 items ranging from doll houses with radios and period furniture to puzzles and knee-action penguins...
...Returning from the Brooklyn waterfront, Comrade Troyanovsky found the Russian embassy in Washington (onetime home of the late George Mortimer Pullman) finally fixed up and ready for occupancy. A new heating and cooling system, a modern kitchen had been installed, but there had been no Russian money available for replacing the ornate chandeliers, the tsaristic red plush furniture...
Quietly into North Tarrytown, N. Y.'s trim Phillipse Manor station at 10 a. m. an electric locomotive drew a baggage car and one compartment Pullman named Glencliff. Two detectives cleared the platform of all save ticketholders. At 11 a. m. five automobiles, one resembling an ambulance, rolled up in single file. From four of them stepped 24 servants. They opened up the ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs...
...prestige. He also is president of Mellbank Corp., which controls a group of some 20 smaller Pennsylvania banks. In the industrial wing he is a director of Aluminum Co., Gulf Oil, Koppers Co. and Carborundum Co. He has a director's vote in such minority Mellon interests as Pullman, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Westinghouse Air Brake, Harbison-Walker Refractories, Norfolk & Western. Last week he was seeking I. C. C. approval (which will probably be denied) of his recent election to the board of Pennsylvania Railroad. Only notable omission from his roster of directorships is Pittsburgh Coal Co., in which...