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...George Mortimer Pullman built his first railroad sleeping car so wide that it could not clear the platforms of the old train shed where Chicago's Union Station now stands. Long since, the Pullman corporations had become so widespread that competitors could not get past them...
That first sleeping car consumed 15 years of George Pullman's life and $20,000 of the money he had made in Chicago construction. He called it "Pioneer," lined it with black walnut inside, painted it a heavy mahogany with gold trimmings outside. It contained a washroom at each end, two compartments, and four sections of seats to be made up into berths...
...railroad president in the country would buy "Pioneer." For months it lay useless in the Chicago and Alton yards. Then, in the spring of 1865, on the day Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...
Last week a Federal court in Philadelphia decided that more ripping was required, ruled that Pullman, Inc. is a trust. The court also recommended that Pullman must divorce its car-manufacturing business from that of operating and servicing sleeping and parlor cars. Pullman has no servicing rivals...
...Pullman President David A. Crawford seemed only mildly miffed, merely said that Pullman would appeal. The reason for his restraint: Pullman is too busy. It has $600 million worth of unfilled orders for tanks, shells, howitzers, boats, aircraft assemblies and freight cars; it expects its cars to be used again, as in 1942, to transport eight million armed men and 18 million civilians; it may land a Government order for 1,200 troop-sleepers of new design, plus 400 mess cars; and it has ready for peacetime production a new, lightweight, 24-roomette duplex sleeping...