Word: sleeper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot verify the truthfulness of the statement but I was informed by a responsible executive that the reason was that in case of a wreck the sleeper's head would come in contact with the steel partition which would naturally increase chances of an immediate death, the reason for this being that a number of States have laws which limit the liability of the rail-road in case of death but do not limit the liability in case of injury...
...Gardiner, Alfred C. Hanford, Frederick P. Keppel, William S. Lawrence, Halfdan Lee, Delmar Leighton, Augustus P. Loring, Jr., Charles Locke, George N. Northrop, Arthur Oakes, George S. Oliver, Leslie R. Porter, James A. Roberts, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Renouf Russell, Stephen Sabine, F. Skiddy Von Stade, Albert Stickney, S. Gardner Sleeper, Robert Sullivan, Oscar H. Stern, Frederick G. White, and Barrett Wondell...
Other Devices: Alarm clock which squirted water on a sleeper's neck; rat exterminator which snapped a collar with bell attached on the rat; electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...
...discomforts of all-night bus travel, amply publicized in 1934's prize cinema, It Happened One Night, are familiar to most U. S. citizens. But few Easterners know that, since 1929, Pacific Greyhound Lines has operated a sleeper-bus service up the West Coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This week Pacific Greyhound will give midlanders a taste of high-way sleeping when it opens "nitecoach" service from Los Angeles to Kansas City -first daily cross-country sleeper...
Also on the committee are: Henry R. Ames, Peter T. Brooks, Thomas B. Campion Robert, C. Downes, Francis Keppel, John P. Lee, George vonL. Meyer, III, Edward H. Porter, George F. Roberts, John A. Roosevelt, Donald C. Sleeper, Albert Stickney, Jr., and Robert Sullivan...