Word: sleeper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sleeper...
...boarded a Pullman in Washington one night last week, squeezed his lanky length into a berth, went quickly to sleep. Half hour later, as the train was clacking through Maryland, another man tiptoed down the aisle, parted the green baize curtains, popped a package of papers on the sleeper. The man in the berth rose up, seized what had struck him, hurled it at the intruder. The man in the aisle picked it up, tossed it back into the berth once more. Swish, the package came sailing out of the berth a second time. The other man retrieved it, laid...
World's first aerial sleeper service was launched by Eastern Air Transport last autumn (TIME, Oct. 16) when an 18-passenger Curtiss Condor with two berths (upper & lower) was assigned to the night run between Newark and Atlanta. When airmail contracts were cancelled in February, Eastern Air discontinued the night run to Atlanta and, with it, air sleeper service. When the company began flying mail again three months later, the sleeper service was not resumed...
Meanwhile on the West Coast berth-plane service was inaugurated three months ago by American Airlines between Los Angeles and Dallas, Tex. Always more progressive in accepting what seems new, the West furnished American Airlines' sleepers with many a capacity load. Encouraged by its success, American Airlines last week inaugurated sleeper service on its six-hour New York-Chicago night run. using 160 m.p.h. Curtiss Condors with twelve berths, upper & lower. The same length as Pullman berths but nine inches narrower, the aerial berths are convertible by day into roomy club chairs...
...PETER, and its mate ST. PAUL which is currently on show at the World's Fair in Chicago, are the only two chapel cars in all U. S. railroading. Descendant of ST. ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER was converted from an ordinary sleeper at a cost of $50.000 by the Catholic Church Extension Society, ablest of Catholic home mission organizations. Eight years ago it was lent, later given to Bishop William Joseph Hafey of Raleigh, N. C. He in turn presented it to the "Mission Band'' headed by Father Murphy. Because only...