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...smuggle a brooch-full of vital statistics from New York City to Los Angeles. Hope is the lesser half of a three-a-day penguin roller-skating act. They meet when Madeleine chooses his dressing room for a hideout from pursuing Nazis. They get out for Hollywood together by Pullman after she has bussed him once and Percy, the penguin, has been signed for pictures...
...gaggery goes on agreeably all the way across the continent. Blonde Miss Carroll, who can act when she has to, makes a good thing out of a role which could have been adequately routine. Percy the penguin wins the pantomime honors hands down. His best scene: waddling down a Pullman aisle in his striped pajamas and matching nightcap, hot after a herring...
...hurry-call trip from Chicago to Washington, Vice President Wallace N. Barker of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. could get a reservation only to Philadelphia, had to switch trains there. Pullman President David A. Crawford was a little luckier: he got an upper...
...pencil erasers, typewriter erasers, rubber bands (the U.S. uses some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber latex auto cushions, Pullman cushions, home and hospital mattresses. Hair will be stringier on next year's beaches: no more bathing caps (last year: 11,500,000); and no more rubber bathing suits...
...roads will need more than 2,200 extra coaches (total U.S. supply: 37,000), plus 1,000 Pullman tourist sleepers which, minus porters and bedding, will be used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond...