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...Louis Car division of General Steel Industries is busy building 162 air-conditioned aluminum cars for the New York Port Authority's Hudson Tube line to New Jersey, this month completed the last of 430 picture-windowed World's Fair cars for the New York subway. Pullman-Standard is building 180 air-conditioned, 65-m.p.h. cars for the Chicago Transit Authority...
...dispute poses a new threat to Harvard and Radcliffe students already faced with the chance of being stranded by possible strike against United Airlines or by bad weather which could close Logan Airport. It involves 4,000 porters who work for the Pullman Car Co., owned by 53 railroads, and several other railroads which have their, own sleeping cars. A strike by this one union would virtually end rail travel...
...Braque was a man of many facets. He was an avid swimmer, a boxer, a wrestler. He played the accordion and drove speedy sports cars until age finally slowed him down. Then, capitulating completely, he bought a Rolls-Royce, explaining that ''it is as comfortable as a Pullman car and al most...
...there was trouble around the bend. On May 11, 1894, Debs called out the workers in Chicago's Pullman shops, and the result was one of the bloodiest strikes in U.S. history. The A.R.U. was among its many casualties...
...first two cars, from the Pullman Standard of Chicago, will arrive Feb. 4, and undergo test runs on the line between Ashmont Station and Harvard Square during non-operating hours...