Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a crippled octopus that cannot quite coordinate all its arms. Many of these arms last week were struggling with the vast problem of rearming the U. S. One, however, found time to buck the trend. The Department of Justice fired an anti-trust suit at a defense industry: Pullman, Inc., a holding company; subsidiary Pullman Co., owner and operator of virtually all U. S. sleeping cars; and subsidiary Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., No. 1 U. S. freight and sleeping car maker...
...Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. (subsidiary of Pullman Inc.) was tooling up a division of its Butler (Pa.) plant to handle a $3,000,000 Allied order for 200,000 six-inch shell forgings (complete except for powder...
...Brown (Pullman Porters and Maids Protective Association), Dave Beck (Teamsters' Union tsar, and force-extraordinary in Seattle politics). Said one hopeful MRA missionary: "If MRA can convince a man like Beck, it may do the same for Hitler...
...great potential fields of development is controlled by its elderly competitor, the railroads. Air express, by contract with the air lines, is a monopoly of Railway Express Agency. And Railway Express Agency is owned lock, stock & barrel by 70 railroads, which have lost some 10% of their Pullman passenger business to transport planes. With all the passenger and mail business they can conveniently handle, U. S. air lines have paid little attention to express, are glad to pay Railway Express Agency a commission of 12½% and costs amounting to about 20% additional on all the express it brings...
...Maryland's 16, Idaho's eight votes to his bag last week. But in California Herbert Hoover's agents quietly picked up 44 "uninstructed" delegates for their old boss. Ohio's Candidate Robert Alphonso Taft discovered last week that viewing-with-alarm, tub-thumping and Pullman undressing had shortened the life of his four all-purpose suits (funerals, weddings, Senate). He acted promptly: in 25 minutes he had enough clothes to carry him through the G. O. P. convention-one pair Regal shoes, black, $5.80; one dark grey, lightweight spring suit...