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...years ago railroad enthusiasts across the nation were shocked to learn that Lucius Beebe '27 had sold his vintage private railroad car, The Gold Coast, and replaced it with a brand new pullman constructed entirely of stainless steel and plate glass, and possessed of no historical merit whatsoever...
Newark is the place where the Pullman porter comes in to brush you off for New York...
...PULLMAN SLUMP caused by airplane competition will force Pennsylvania Railroad to halt coast-to-coast through-sleeper service, make transcontinental passengers go back to switching trains in Chicago. Each through sleeper needs 15 passengers to break even, has recently averaged only nine...
...Katy executives were ordered to stay away from the office. Terse, printed notices advised the 115 displaced workers that they were out of jobs unless they reported to Denison within 48 hours; the company offered them transportation and a week's lodging aboard vintage 1910 Pullman cars, plus $4 daily for food. About 65 workers made the trip; the other 50, some with 40 years service, got two days' salary in severance...
...listing arrangement for the company), which struck him suddenly when he was stuck under the Hudson River in a train, made him $10 million without a stroke of work. A second brain wave (involving the sale of his advertising agency to the Lambert Co.), descending on him in a Pullman sleeper, brought another $5,000,000. Finally, bored with moneymaking, Lambert sold all his own holdings, and "from that day to this I have never tried to make another dollar." It is not surprising that most of the remainder of this autobiography is about yachts...