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...last fortnight's United Air Liner crash in Utah (TIME, Oct. 25), four experts of the Bureau of Air Commerce with three assistants were converging on the scene of the wreck. Chairman of the investigating committee, Milton C. Foster, delayed proceedings two days by traveling to Utah by Pullman. Official findings are not likely to be released for many weeks, but last week the known facts of the accident were...
...South Station. Twenty minutes before ten. The train isn't ready yet. Some delay by the Pullman Company. The players fool around. A small crowd looks on observantly, wonderingly. These guys are big, somebody says...
There are still ten berths open to undergraduates or graduates who wish to take advantage of the savings offered by going on the special train. Since sleeper and pullman accomodations are necessary, however, the cost is still high, and the expense was given as the reason that not many undergraduates took advantage of the offer by Edward D. Bement '08 who is in charge of the trip...
...special price of $24.75 has been set plus the price of the Pullman car, which is $7.00 for a lower berth. This is $3.00 less than the regular price by train would...
...Philip Randolph began organizing porters. Having been duped in the past, many of them were suspicious. Other Negroes fought the union for a price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped...