Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David, 24, calls him a "libertarian anarchist" who even raised his children by free-market rules. Friedman once offered David, then ten, and his older sister Janet a choice of Pullman berths for a cross-country train trip, or the extra price of those berths in cash. The children chose to sit up in coaches for two days and take the cash...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...
...typical robot is outrigged with a hydraulic arm that, mounted on a desk-like base, is capable of reaching out, seizing industrial material and moving it from one spot to another. The two leading U.S. manufacturers of first-generation robots are Connecticut-based Unimation Inc. (a subsidiary of Pullman Inc.) and AMF Thermatool, Inc., of New Rochelle, N.Y. (a subsidiary of AMF Co.), which between them have about 140 of their surrealistic creations (price range: $18,000 to $25,000) operating in plants at home and abroad. With the robots proving their worth in one industry after another...
Divorced. John Jacob Astor III, 56, portly playboy and great-great-grandson of the tycoon, by Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 39, his third wife, after 131 years of marriage (131 years of separation); on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; in Miami...
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