Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of moths whirred dizzily around the floodlights, and the heavy dew of midsummer was in the air when a portable ramp was lifted from the baggage car, fitted to the President's Pullman (the Roald Amundsen) and tested. Then a big Secret Service car (District of Columbia license 104) rolled down the cindery hill road from the village, heading a small procession. The villagers, mostly Republicans (they were saying so all evening) rattled a few handclaps as Eleanor Roosevelt, in a loose, flowered green dress, stepped out first and walked around to stand beside the ramp; rattled again...
...painstaking concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire in 1936. After an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the post, he offered it to Warren, who promptly refused. This time, with billions going for defense...
...Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold's charge was that Pullman has: 1) monopolized the making of and operation of sleeping cars; 2) charged railroads and the public unreasonably high rates for sleeping car service; 3) forced railroads to pay unreasonably high prices for rolling stock; 4) prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action. (Since...
There was no doubt that Pullman is (and long has been) a virtual monopoly. In 73 years, from a $1,250,000 company in a bitterly competitive world, it has bought and fought its way to a $221,000,000 giant whose service contracts cover all U. S. railroads. Since 1900 Pullman and its subsidiaries have manufactured all U. S. sleeping cars except 15. It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales. If any car fails to gross a net sum (normally $9,000 yearly) to cover its share of Pullman expenses (porters, linens, maintenance...
Trustbuster Arnold asked for separation of Pullman's operating and manufacturing functions. He also asked revision of its railroad car contracts to give the roads and other, newer train makers (such as Budd Manufacturing Co.) a better break. Chief apparent weakness of his suit was its timing. For Pullman-Standard is busy on a $3,000,000 shell order from Britain, last week got a $254,000 educational order for shells from the U. S. War Department. Moreover, Pullman-Standard's freight car capacity (74,700) may well be sorely needed to keep U. S. railroads ahead...