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Fading Possibility. So it went. The possibility of holding down next year's estimated $7 billion deficit to even that whopping figure faded further when the House Ways & Means Committee continued to slash excise taxes. Newest items marked for tax relief were telephone bills, Pullman-berth tickets and cabaret chits. Added to cuts made the week before, the new slashes would reduce the Treasury's intake by about $1 billion...
...Pullman X-400 was switched off the Federal Express at Baltimore early this morning and disgorged 18 oarsmen (two of them spares), two coxswains, crew coach Tom Bolles, and a handful of managers. From Baltimore the varsity and J.V. entrained for Annapolis, where they will row Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup tomorrow on the Severn...
Carry found his man in white-thatched, pink-cheeked Thomas I. Parkinson, president of the $5.3 billion Equitable Life Assurance Society. Last week Parkinson announced a smart new solution to the problem. Equitable will buy cars from Pullman and other manufacturers (in payments spread over five years), and lease them to railroads on 15-year contracts. Gossip among railroad men was that the rent will be less than the $1.75 a day which roads now charge when they swap each other's equipment. When the contracts expire, the roads may return the cars to Equitable, or rent them...
Champ Carry, the hefty (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) president of Pullman, Inc. took an agonized look at his freight-car orders one day last fall. The big postwar backlog of freight-car orders had nearly disappeared, and Pullman's three freight-car plants had all but shut down. Yet Carry knew that U.S. railroads needed freight cars; more than half of the 1,762,239 cars in the U.S. are rattling antiques more than 20 years old. There was plenty of business if Carry could find" someone with the money to finance car buying for the cash-short railroads...