Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's South Station, flaxen-haired Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall boarded a Pullman for Washington, gave the conductor a lower-berth ticket. Said he: "The President's daughter can't ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...
...against 3.6? previously; 2) round-trip tickets with more than a ten-day limit, 2? a mile. Optional with individual roads is a 2? rate for round trip with a ten-day limit and a straight 2½ ?a-mile one-way fare, good on day coaches only. The Pullman surcharge, an amount collected by the railroads equal to one-half the rate charged by Pullman, Inc., was abolished...
...willing to compromise, but New Haven, which derives a bigger pro portion of its gross revenues from passen ger traffic than any other major U. S. road (38%), is flatly opposed to any & all fare-cutting. Observers believed last week that the Eastern roads might soon eliminate the Pullman surcharge and reduce the basic one-way fare to 3? a mile, but would hold the round-trip rate to at least...
...most big transport planes a passenger may tilt his chair far back, but semi-vertical sleep is not easy. Knowing that the U. S. traveler expects more solid comfort, Eastern Air is experimenting with berths just like a Pullman car's. To start, the company installed only two berths in one plane, a lower and upper, complete with reading lamps, clothing nets, hangers. It had yet to prove that passengers, who think nothing of disrobing in a train or at sea, would believe they are safe without clothes in a plane...
...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...