Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Southern Pacific in newspaper ads: "The airlines compare their fares with railroad fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is cheaper. ... In comparing fares [they] always add in the cost of a Pullman lower berth. A comparison of a seat in a plane and a berth on the train is the same as comparing a chair with...
Worse than that, the relations between the U.S. players and Mexico's collection of Latins and Negroes were sour, although Boss Pasquel had carefully distributed his free apartments, extra expense accounts and Pullman reservations without regard to color or previous condition of servitude...
...ebullient Robert Ralph Young has a 1946 batting average of 1,000. First he went to bat for through transcontinental sleeping car service at Chicago and St. Louis-and scored (TIME, April 1). Next time up, he got a base hit on his campaign against the black market in Pullman reservations. ICC approved Pullman's suggested changes on rail reservations...
...week's end, none had come forward. Reason: most big roads are in the pool that was approved (by a lower court) as purchaser of the Pullman sleeping car service (TIME, Dec. 31). Bob Young, who wants to run Pullman sleepers himself, has appealed to the Supreme Court. He hoped the Supreme Court was reading...
...wasn't satisfied that Pressed Steel had again become the third largest freight car manufacturer in the U.S. (numbers 1 & 2: American Car & Foundry; Pullman, Inc.), or that it had $42 million in car orders on hand, expected soon to be producing cars at the rate of 120 a day. Said Murphy: "Selling to railroads means either feast or famine. I'd rather have 50 million potential customers than a handful...