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...train travelers who dislike horizontal undressing in a berth but cannot afford a drawing room or compartment, Pullman Co. last week had an announcement. Now abuilding, in new equipment for the New York Central's 20th Century Limited, the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, the North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific streamliners and the Santa Fe's Chief, is a new Pullman creation-the "roomette." Occupying a little over the space of one section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample...
...given to the Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman Co., thought this the best likeness of his father ever painted. In her will, Mrs. Lincoln provided that the picture should remain in possession of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Lincoln Isham, during her life, then go to the Government, "provided it be given an appropriate place in the White House...
...addressed the U. S. Senate and shook the hands of all its members, did it all over again in the House, returned to the White House for tea, said goodby, took his lady to dinner at the Canadian Legation as guest of Sir Herbert Marler, then tumbled into a Pullman bed to sleep the hard-earned sleep of the distinguished all the way back to the Canadian border under State Department escort...
Died. Mary Eunice Harlan Lincoln, 90, daughter-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, relict of Robert Todd Lincoln, onetime (1897-1911) president of Pullman Co., U. S. Minister to Great Britain (1889-93) and Secretary of War (1881-85); in Washington. She outlived her husband by almost eleven years, her son Abraham II by 47. Robert Todd Lincoln was present at the assassinations of his father, Presidents Garfield and McKinley...
...Pullman, Inc., because people are again riding in Pullmans at the basic 3? per mi. rate and smoke is again rising from its Depression-deserted shops along Chicago's Cottage Grove Avenue: net profits of $6,-347,000, compared with a loss of $273,728 in 1935. General Foods Corp. (So branded items from oysters to nuts), with the best sales since 1929:net profits of $14,241,000,compared with profits...