Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common-or-garden Pullman, still standard equipment for overnight travel, the seasoned traveler knows that he will go to bed when the porter chooses to make up his berth-no sooner and not much later. He masters the special technique required for undressing in a Pullman berth: a brand of gymnastics which would do credit to a graduate student of yoga. He knows that the car's oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals...
...phone call, Ford's North Eastern Regional Manager Charles J. Seyffer said wearily: "It's the heat." ¶Three hundred members of "Tall Clubs" (men must be 6 ft. 2 in. or over, women 5 ft. 10 in.), met in Chicago, filed their annual pleas for longer Pullman berths and higher telephone booths, crowned Marie Van Leuren, 6 ft. 1½ in., as "Queen of Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity...
Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching. In 1942, when war industries were begging for skilled workers, the Chicago school board looked around for a man who could perk up down-in-the-mouth Dunbar. The principal at Wendell Phillips High School, where Campbell was dean of boys, gave him a resounding recommendation: "An artist in human relations...
...most spectacular of the new trains is scheduled to make its maiden run next month, when the New York Central System shows off its new $4,000,000 Twentieth Century Limited, the Central's first new Pullman streamliner in ten years. For the New York-Chicago run, the Central has designed a combination businessman's hotel and office, with showers, secretarial rooms, and telephones...
...fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares an average of 17% (a total of about $61,000,000 a year). By passengers' standards, it meant that coach travel was now as expensive (3? a mile) as Pullman travel was before...