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...working methods, Editor Aswell mentions, among other unpublished manuscripts, the novel K 19, in which Wolfe tried to dispose of his obsession for trains and which, greatly reduced, became the tremendous first section of Of Time and the River. He adds a ghostlike fact: The number of the Pullman which took Wolfe's family, on the same train with his dead body, back to Asheville...
Freight-car facts of last week: only Bethlehem Steel, which makes its own plates, was able to push its August output (599 cars) above July (244). Even Bethlehem produced cars at only 75% of rated capacity; American Car & Foundry turned them out at only 18% of capacity in August, Pullman-Standard at 15%; the industry as a whole was at less than 50%. For the first eight months of 1941, only 49,134 new cars were put into service v. 44,791 last year, but on Labor Day the railroads had 92,033 cars on order (v. 18,456 last...
...have . . . survived a night in a narrow-gauge Pullman can corroborate the General. None but those built like Beanpoles could get into the berths at all, and then only by lying edgewise...
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Southern rail operators expect to comply without too much difficulty. "Equal accommodations" in day coaches, said one spokesman, could be provided by movable partitions, as well as by the present method, and some similar arrangement might be worked out for Pullmans. The roads had been expecting this decision for some time. The rare Negroes who buy Pullman accommodations in the South are assigned "lower 13," a nonexistent berth, for that price have been given a drawing room, compartment, or bedroom-whichever was available...