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...home, Ed shaved in a $7,500 goldleaf bathroom, ate in a white-and-silver dining room at a glass-topped table, relaxed in a game room with a miniature pool table flanked by a rolling bar. Eighteen years ago Ed had been a Pullman-car porter. Now he had the golden touch. Would it work on the kidnapers...
Just after one o'clock the Advance lurched to a halt. Trainmen suspected a hot box. Diners in the next-to-last car looked idly through the windows at the frame houses of Naperville. From the 13th car, an ordinary Pullman, a flagman raced up the cinders to warn the Exposition on the wide curve behind...
Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll...
...Young still hopes to set up his own through Pullman service. The Department of Justice gave him encouragement last week when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ban the sale of the Pullman Co. to a combination of 52 railroads. Although the sale had been approved by a District Court as a method of dissolving Pullman's monopoly, Justice argued that this would merely set up a new monopoly. Justice's candidate for ownership of the Pullmans: Bob Young...
...Greyhound Corp. bus lines thus caroled that the worst travel jam in U.S. history was about over. The Office of Defense Transportation chimed in. On Feb. 15, U.S. airlines can stop setting aside 70% of their eastbound transcontinental space for servicemen. On March 15, ODT restrictions on Pullman runs and on advance rail reservations will...