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RAIL FARES are rising another 5% for coach and first-class passengers on western roads and eight big eastern lines, including the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Chesapeake & Ohio. Together with 7% Pullman-fare hike, increase will raise revenues $29.5 million yearly. Some eastern roads want additional 40% boost in first-class rates...
...stations, hotel lobbies, rooming houses, side streets, Pullman compartments, lighted windows, underpasses-such are the meager materials Hopper chooses to make immutable and unforgettable on canvas. Their fascination for him lies in the fact they are manmade, and common-man-made. He finds them appropriate for the expression of human striving in all its loneliness and disarray, as well as its hints and spasms of nobility...
...PULLMAN FARE HIKE of 7% starts Jan. 1 on railway sleepers if ICC approves. Pullman Inc. says raise will add $6,500,000 to annual revenue, offset higher costs...
Pretty blonde Dolly Pullman Astor, 28, who was a $65-a-week receptionist before she married multimillionaire John Jacob Astor III and ditched him six weeks later, had her maintenance raised by the Florida Supreme Court from $75 to $250 a week...
...siding, and Caldarelli suddenly raced across the track, opened two locks and threw the switch. The streamliner, instead of rushing past at 40 to 45 m.p.h. on the main line, roared into the open switch, onto the siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory car from the rear. The toll: 20 dead, all of them Santa Fe employees; 35 injured, most...