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...Model 31 had a high speed of 275 m.p.h. (75 miles faster than Boeing's four-motored 314 clipper), handled nicely in the air. Gasoline consumption showed that she had a range of 10,000 miles with a light passenger load, that she could lug 28 passengers in Pullman accommodations across the Atlantic at a speed unprecedented for commercial flying boats...
...Paderewski took the road again. Accompanying him from Switzerland was his dapper, diplomatic secretary Sylwin Strakacz, his valet and a curious, high-backed, fringed, 50-pound piano stool which is as indispensable to Paderewski's playing as the piano itself. Waiting for him in Manhattan was the private Pullman which will be his home during the next three months. Waiting also was his faithful piano-tuner, grey-haired Boston-born Eldon Joubert, who has accompanied him on all his U. S. tours since...
...railroads. It announced the roads would take a passenger from any town in the U. S.-even Miami, or Brownsville, or Kennebunk Port-transport him to San Francisco, carry him on to New York, then back to his home, all for $90 in coaches, or $135 first class, with Pullman charges added. The railroads are not in favor of freight "postalization," but this was the plainest kind of passenger postalization...
...half years ago Mr. Williamson headed another committee with exactly the same mission. Certain Western and Southern roads had tried cutting fares, had got an immediate rise in passenger revenue. Nonetheless, after due discussion, the Eastern roads decided against slashing the established 3.6?-a-mile coach fare, 4? Pullman fare. Finally, in 1936, ICC ordered them to cut to 2? and 3? respectively. The Eastern roads were furious at the order, would have fought it out in court had not the Baltimore & Ohio refused to cooperate. Passenger revenue, however, jumped as a result of the lower rates (Mr. Williamson...
Meanwhile, two smart Philadelphia Jewish boys named Harry and Maxwell Kunin had rolled out to Chicago in a Pullman and gone into the grocery trade. With their father they opened a small store, branched into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with...