Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come from a pretty woman's lips. Her first book, The Company She Keeps (1942), told of a girl who suffers guilt by association of one kind or another with a Yale man, an art dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants of New York's intellectual Left; it began with the arrival of a bunch of New Utopians, their cars laden "with whisky, cans and contraceptives," and left them...
Instead of flying on to San Francisco, the Foreign Minister decided to see the country, and packed his 54-man entourage (including 13 bodyguards and the Foreign Minister of Poland) aboard three special Pullman cars. During a stopover in Chicago, he went rubbernecking, toured the city for five hours. Along Lake Shore Drive,, he suddenly left his car to walk for a while, then just as suddenly crossed the drive in the midst of rush-hour traffic. Automobiles were tied up for miles as his motorcade and police escort jockeyed through an illegal U-turn to keep up with...
Spaciousness and privacy are emphasized from stem to stern. The traditional three-tiered bunks for crewmen remain -but with a difference. They have been ' compartmentalized like Pullman berths, with lightweight, perforated "privacy partitions." Each bunk is equipped with a bed lamp and a pocket for books. Each tier of three has a fireproof, "Sandbrown" curtain, and most are ventilated with electric fans. There are nearly twice as many lockers as sailors aboard. Each compartment has folding chairs, a table and a hi-fi radio speaker as standard equipment...
Even in corporations where profits were down because the upswing in business was not yet reflected in earnings, officials were optimistic. Westinghouse Electric's first-quarter earnings fell from $26,286,000 for the first quarter of 1954 to $12,782,000 this year; Pullman Inc. earned only $1,275,873 this year v. $4,197,701 in the first three months of 1954. But, with orders piling up, both companies think they will do better in the rest of this year...
...Robert R. Young's New York Central and Patrick McGinmY New York, New Haven & Hartford each ordered a five-car "Train X," Young's oft-touted dream, from Pullman. Only u ft. high (v. the Pennsy's n ft. 9 in.). Train X will be capable of straightaway speeds up to 120 m.p.h., will take turns at up to 70 m.p.h., v. 30 or 40 m.p.h. with present equipment. Price: about $1,000,000. Delivery: second quarter...