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...Pullman owns 8,500 cars with names ranging from Abbakon to Zurich. Of these only 4,900 are now in use. The company has not built a Pullman car since...
...conditioning, as the latest wrinkle in U. S. transportation comfort, has helped keep Pullman's great shops open. More than 1,200 Pullman cars have been equipped to date, and another 1,000 will be finished by the end of 1935. The company has developed its own air-conditioning machinery but a few railroads prefer to install other types. The 141 Pullmans used in Baltimore & Ohio's crack trains are all fitted with York machinery. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has 30 Pullmans equipped by Carrier Corp. However, Pullman has outfitted about one-half of the 1,400 air-conditioned diners...
Last week Pullman Inc. reported a third quarter profit of $2,100,000?best figure for any quarter in four years. Pullman lost money last year and the year before but as late as 1930 it rolled up earnings of $16,000,000. Well-buttressed with cash ($36,000,000 at the end of September), with no bonds, no preferred stock, it paid a $3 dividend through the blackest years of Depression...
...Pullman is a holding company controlling two distinct organizations. One is The Pullman Co., which has a practical monopoly on railroad comfort.* The other is Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., which is one of the biggest U. S. makers of railroad rolling stock. Lately Pullman's equipment business has fattened on railroad orders financed with PWA loans. It built Union Pacific's two streamlined, high-speed trains, has orders booked for two more. From Pullman, Illinois Central also wants an experimental five-car train...
...eyes of the Interstate Commerce Commission if not of the traveling public, The Pullman Co. is a common carrier. In the first nine months of 1934 it reported to I. C. C. gross passenger revenues of $33,000,000 which was $4,500,000 better than in the same period of 1933. Average passengers per Pullman car dropped from 11.6 in 1929 to 8.6 last year. (Most cars will seat or sleep 28 persons.) Last year 9,000,000 people bought berths, 4,000,000 bought seats, a total of 13,000,000 Pullman passengers; in 1929 there were...