Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siding, and Caldarelli suddenly raced across the track, opened two locks and threw the switch. The streamliner, instead of rushing past at 40 to 45 m.p.h. on the main line, roared into the open switch, onto the siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory car from the rear. The toll: 20 dead, all of them Santa Fe employees; 35 injured, most...
LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS will be all but extinct in two decades, says Donald J. Russell, president of Southern Pacific Co., second longest (12,435 miles operated in 1955) U.S. railroad. Reason, says Russell, who also predicts end of Pullman cars, is jet airliners, which will soon be capable of 1,000 m.p.h. speed...
...proposal, which would go into effect May 1, seeks to raise all fares by five percent. At present, the charge is 3.375 cents a mile for coach and 4.5 cents for Pullman travel...
...LOWER PULLMAN FARES will be tried in an experiment to increase off-season travel. ICC has given Pullman Co. permission to cut fares (until April 30) on berths, roomettes and compartments as much as 40% on 15 railroads operating west of Chicago...
...every measure, 1955 showed the flowering of American capitalism. With barely 6½% of the world's population the U.S. turned out well over 60% of its goods. Across the land the signs of limitless bounty were evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where the Pullman Building will be replaced by a 20-story skyscraper tinted gold; the star blazed briefly on Davy Crockett, who rocketed overnight into a $100 million moppet madness, on Ford's newborn $10,000 Continental-and on cigar makers, who had their best year since 1929 as 10 million Americans...