Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roomette fares are to be approximately 40% above lower berth charges, but lower than the rates now charged for bedroom cars. Sample: Chicago-New York lower berth, $6.00; Section $8.40; Bedroom $10.80; Roomette, $8.40. If the increase in fares applied for in Washington last week by the Pullman Co. is granted, these rates will be increased...
...years travelers who went to bed on trains either slept behind the green curtains of standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted...
...coincidence the cousin and uncle arrived on the same train. He was waiting for them, a cigar in one pocket, a package of Beechnut in another, and a determination in his mind to collect within short order the price of two tickets. He saw them descend from different Pullmans at the same moment. Rushing to the uncle on the right, he cried, "Wait a minute, Cousin Arthur is approaching on my left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted...
...obtain these fares passengers are required to begin their outward journeys from any point on either Saturday or Monday and return anytime, any ship, within 15 days. Examples: Round Trip Rail, Pullman TWA Columbus-New York $46.40 $45.15 Albuquerque-New York 166.00 163.95 New York-Los Angeles...
Although this device was not described in scientific literature until late in 1934 it has already found numerous applications in industry. One of these is the study of odors in Pullman cars equipped with recirculated conditioned air apparatus. The use of the osmoscope enabled the engineers of the Pullman Company to measure the odors present and so design suitable methods for their removal...