Word: pullmans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Redcap's name is now George Gabriel, and he got here because he happened to be a porter for Theodore Roosevelt on his hunting trip of 1909-10. Roosevelt brought him home when he came. He has recently become a Pullman porter, running to Buffalo. If you're on a train bound there, you'd better find out if your porter's name is George before you say anything in Swahili. --The New Yorker...
Special trains can go special places. One afternoon last week five sleek Pullman cars backed into the little West Shore R. R. town of Highland, N. Y. Late that evening President Roosevelt, crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge from his Hyde Park estate, boarded the train and it sped down the river to Weehawken. In the dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey...
Click. The company placed a $200,000 order with Pullman Co. and General Motors Corp. to build a streamlined, oil-or gasoline-motored train capable of traveling 110 m.p.h...
...long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course by "palace car" (early Pullman). Julia's plaints of their continual traveling, her vehement assertions that Chicago is her home, "worth all London Paris & New York put together," ring a little false, her boredom is a little showy; but she had another cause for ennui: ill health. Undergoing the rigors of a Manhattan dress-fitting...
General Houses. In Hubbard Woods, Ill. on the high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an oblong dwelling, severe and clean as a pursuit plane. Pullman Co. cooperated in the fabrication of its steel walls, Container Corp. in the development of its insulation. It is occupied by Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer...