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...Four") instead of over Chicago & Eastern Illinois'. It had been doing business with C. & E. I. for half, a century, had run its crack Southern trains over the C. & E. I. route since 1904. But C. & E. I. is now in financial distress and reputedly has difficulty getting Pullman Co.'s best equipment for through sleeper service to Florida. Big Four, as a New York Central subsidiary, gets the very best. Both lines run from Chicago to Evansville, Ind. Big Four's better equipment and ability to bring in business were alone sufficient to interest L. & N. But there...
...East Los Angeles young Mr. Harriman, who, like his father before him, now chairmans the Union Pacific's board, stepped into his company's newest train, sat down in a Pullman named "E. H. Harriman." Also aboard were U. P.'s President Carl Raymond Gray, and many an other bigwig. This was no ordinary train; it was the railroad's answer to aviation-a sleek streak of canary-yellow speed...
...times did Republican Peterson of Snohomish go to Seattle to sell State Chairman Jay Noble Emerson, and ten times was he turned away. So Nominee Peterson began crying out at Republican rallies that Chairman Emerson, conservative Pullman merchant, was subtly working for his defeat by withholding campaign cooperation. Last week at a G. O. P. meeting at Bellingham. again outside the doors of a party clam-dinner from the rostrum of which he had been excluded, Rev. Payson Peterson loudly demanded Chairman Emerson's resignation, charged that Emerson was getting not only his funds but his directions from William...
Most amusing to today's public was a design of a Pullman car which Mr. Brady liked to pin on his underwear. Almost two inches long were his freight and passenger car cuff links. A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond...
This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers...