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...find any statement giving the major cause of the cigaret shortage, which is the tremendous increase in smoking by women. One sees on the streets, in public buildings, in common carriers, females of all ages puffing on cigarets. A few days ago I saw four women in a Pullman compartment, all well over 70 years of age, all four attempting to smoke. The process to them appeared to be exceedingly uncomfortable...
...discs (Creole Song; South, Get Out of Here; Blues for Jimmy) were sold out soon after the release. They were made in Los Angeles with the help of an authentic Dixieland ensemble-including Trumpeter Edward ("Mutt") Carey, who weathered the sweet-arrangement era as a Pullman porter. The recordings, a mixture of Congo barrelhouse and Creole sauce, are probably as close as anything ever put on wax to the spirit of old Storyville, New Orleans' once-gaudy bawdyhouse district...
...National Gallery in Washington, which had never lent one of its Mellon paintings, finally yielded to Chicago cajoling, sent Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Mrs. Richard Yates in a Pullman drawing room with the National Gallery assistant director for company...
...next; they had entirely stalled production for more than 24 hours. In Chicago 600 employes at the Dodge plant, which makes 6-29 Superfortress engines, struck for three days, scurried back to work after a wounded Army private had pleaded with them. In Bessemer, Ala., male welders in the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. went on strike when the female welders got a raise. This was a full week's strike crop...
...warm days & nights, a troop train rumbled. It was an old train, with no fancy name. To the engineers and switchmen, it was No. 7452-C. The men on board dubbed it the "Home Again Special," and wrote the new name in chalk on the sides of the old Pullman cars. In another war there might have been brass bands at every stop. But in this pageantry-less, slogan-less war, the train just rumbled on toward New York, through the big towns and the whistle-stops...