Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pullman you spoke of me renting to go to Hollywood in 1931 was, in reality, a private car . . . and was rented and paid for by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios...
...slick-haired, aggressive, plunked himself into the president's chair a fortnight ago and calmly announced that he was out to carve himself a rich slice of the rail car business. He did not seem to care if it came right out of the venerable Big Four-Pullman, American Car, General American and Pressed Steel. His $3,000,000 order from the Southern Railway for 1,000 freight cars was proof he meant business...
Gullible or desperate tourists paid sharpers from $5 to $15 for "reservations" (the relief trains had no reserved seats). Florida's black market business in regular Pullman reservations continued to boom. Up rose President Andrew G. O'Rourke of the Greater Miami Hotel Association to declare: most of the black market ticket-selling was the work of "an unethical gang of thugs from the North, and not by hotel porters or Miamians." He had hardly subsided when FBI men arrested as scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar...
...Voice. Grace Moore always had the born trouper's instinct for the big way. At her Metropolitan debut the wings were crowded with newsreel cameramen, and Beatrice Lillie and Miriam Hopkins threw violets from the boxes. When a short time afterward, Hollywood beckoned, Grace hired a Pullman, garnished with orchids and banana trees, and went in state. She may not have become the world's greatest soprano, but nobody could accuse her of not acting the part...
Nobody except the vacationers would have cared much if they had been left to crawl home on their tanned hands & knees. But their pressure on Florida's railroads, hotels and natives was getting dangerous. The railroads estimated that the 150,000-odd civilians trying for Pullman space would take three months to move unless precious extra trains were put on. Meanwhile, those-who-sacrificed-least jammed Miami and Palm Beach hotels, refusing to move out for new comers. The newcomers spilled over into private houses, used up precious gas and tires chartering cabs to nearby cities not quite...