Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the five-year peak. The average Pullman passenger traveled 420 miles on each trip last year, 25 miles further than he did in 1925. But where 13 people rode in each Pullman car in 1925, only 11 people rode in 1929. Result: many more empty upper berths...
Last week Pullman Co. announced a plan to help compensate itself for the loss of a million and a half berth passengers On May 1 it will reduce its rates 22% on sections (upper and lower berths combined). It hopes single passengers, to get privacy by day, air and space by night, will buy sections instead of lowers, thus supply revenue from otherwise empty profitless uppers. Present section rate New York-Chicago: $16.20. New section rate...
Colloredo's premature entree into upperclass rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather...
...time, wild horses could not have dragged such words from beneath the stiff upper lips of the English rulers of India. And last week upper lips were stiffening again. In Manhattan the chief executive of one of the two largest U. S. press services ruefully expressed his doubt that the Gandhi story can be covered now, while it is a story...
...made by a first-rate singer (Lawrence Tibbett's Rogue Song was the first) was directed by Frank Borzage, a director whose specialty it is to lay over his interiors and landscapes a film of sentiment much like the tearful coloring with which John McCormack colors his celebrated upper register. In his customary manner, Mr. Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story of frustrated love, frankly just a vehicle for Tenor McCormack. He sings eleven songs...