Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie began in earnest the long, uphill fight to win the GOPresidential nomination. His special car, so ancient a Pullman that the Union Pacific refused to hitch it to the super-streamlined City of San Francisco, rumbled west from Chicago behind the Overland Limited...
...Berlin, Leipzig and Hamburg. Long since exiled from the Third Reich (all are Jewish), they make their headquarters in Washington, D.C. They practice three hours a day with religious regularity, pausing occasionally for tea (see cut). All disputes about interpretation are put to a majority vote. On their long Pullman hops they are incessant poker and bridge players, winning and losing substantial sums among themselves. Their drinking habits, not nearly as blended as their tone, are: Roismann, tomato juice; Alexander Schneider, Burgundy; Kroyt, vodka; Mischa Schneider, milk...
...Pullman, Wash...
...Most passenger equipment is outmoded and should be completely replaced with fast, streamlined trains. (One railroad executive admitted: "One of the radical departures is to consider the comfort and convenience of the passenger." Another: "The open-section Pullman car is as extinct as the dodo." Another: "We will never buy another heavyweight car . . . car builders will be swamped with orders for [streamlined] equipment...
...skimpily clad babes, then testified "as a doctor who has examined hundreds of women." Said he: Varga girls are "inspiring" and not abnormally hippy, though sometimes their feet are too big. He was shown an Esquire joke about a corporal who found two luscious blondes in his Pullman berth and said, "One of you girls will have to leave." Dr. Tillotson's reaction: "That I call funny...