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...President accepted the IBPOEW's invitation, provided he was still in Washington on Aug. 27. Ruler Wilson expected nothing less, for all his life prominent men have been his familiars. At 13 he was a bellhop in Chicago's Palmer House. For four years he was a Pullman porter on the Missouri Pacific. "Buffalo Bill" Cody set him up driving a stagecoach in Nebraska. He was a member of the distinguished horde of gold hunters in the Klondike. Tex Rickard, who used to call him "Little Britches," took him on as a business partner in a dance hall...
...Colonel May and his partners put up the money. By 1915 a large part of Henry Ittleson's finance business, chiefly in furniture and machines, was coming from the East. Accordingly, one Saturday noon he piled his filing cabinets into an express car, his employes into a Pullman and the following Monday morning opened shop in Manhattan. Around 1920 Henry Ittleson became convinced that his business was leaning too heavily on the motor industry. He launched a program of diversification which took him into phonographs, vacuum cleaners, barber and beauty shop equipment, electric refrigerators, oil burners and finally into...
...continue paying 1929 dividends all through Depression. In 1933 it raised its dividends from $2.50 per share to $2.80. And last week C. & O. hung up another record when it awarded contracts for $11,819,000 worth of railway equipment, biggest single order this year. From American Car & Foundry, Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co., General American Car Co. and Bethlehem Steel Co., C. & O. ordered 5,000 50-ton steel hopper coal cars, 75 steel underframe flat cars and 50 single deck stock cars-a total of 5,125 units, nearly four times as much as all the freight cars ordered...
...railroad station in St. Paul a spokesman among the departing colonists yowled because the Government had promised them Pullman sleepers and here they were having to ride in plain day coaches. Embarking at San Francisco, 39 colonists staged a near-insurrection because they saw none of the radios, sewing machines and washing machines the Government had promised. Other complaints filtered down from the North. The Government had promised full medical service, but there was only one doctor for some 2,000 men, women, children. All children and most adults were reported mildly sick, vastly terrified at the thought...
...railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner, spied some newshawks, then loped on her lively 7AA's to her Pullman, pausing on the vestibule steps to fling her head and cry: "I'm so tired of it all!" Later she reappeared at her drawing room door to pose for pictures. Nearing Manhattan, she alighted with great secrecy at Newark to avoid a reception at the Pennsylvania Station totaling five...