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...against 3.6? previously; 2) round-trip tickets with more than a ten-day limit, 2? a mile. Optional with individual roads is a 2? rate for round trip with a ten-day limit and a straight 2½ ?a-mile one-way fare, good on day coaches only. The Pullman surcharge, an amount collected by the railroads equal to one-half the rate charged by Pullman, Inc., was abolished...
...willing to compromise, but New Haven, which derives a bigger pro portion of its gross revenues from passen ger traffic than any other major U. S. road (38%), is flatly opposed to any & all fare-cutting. Observers believed last week that the Eastern roads might soon eliminate the Pullman surcharge and reduce the basic one-way fare to 3? a mile, but would hold the round-trip rate to at least...
...most big transport planes a passenger may tilt his chair far back, but semi-vertical sleep is not easy. Knowing that the U. S. traveler expects more solid comfort, Eastern Air is experimenting with berths just like a Pullman car's. To start, the company installed only two berths in one plane, a lower and upper, complete with reading lamps, clothing nets, hangers. It had yet to prove that passengers, who think nothing of disrobing in a train or at sea, would believe they are safe without clothes in a plane...
...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...
...Redcap's name is now George Gabriel, and he got here because he happened to be a porter for Theodore Roosevelt on his hunting trip of 1909-10. Roosevelt brought him home when he came. He has recently become a Pullman porter, running to Buffalo. If you're on a train bound there, you'd better find out if your porter's name is George before you say anything in Swahili. --The New Yorker...