Word: pullman
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Valentine's Day massacre. Imagine that your only traveling to Florida. Finally, picture yourself on a train way out is to disguise yourself and join an all-girls band with nothing but girls, all of them in flimsy negligees, one of them Marilyn Monroe, crawling all over your Pullman berth. Just imagine...
Frisco's Gilliland also put Frisco engineers to work to design a special auto-carrying freight car. They devised a triple-deck, 85-ft. flatcar capable of carrying twelve standard or 15 compact cars v. eight or ten cars piggybacked. The Frisco commissioned Pullman Inc. to build a prototype, and after testing it ordered 129 more. The first went into service in August, proved so economical that the St. Louis-Dallas delivery charge was reduced to $65.05 for a standard car, $54 for a compact. By the end of this month, when all 130 of the new cars...
...Lackawanna Railroad's crack Phoebe Snow pulled out of Hoboken and roared west last week, a private Pullman car was attached to the rear, with a party of eight elderly Negroes aboard. The leader and bill payer of the group was a tall, spare man, duded up in a blinding sports shirt and necktie, a sharp-lapelled suit, jaunty Ivy League cap and high-button shoes. He was no potentate from Africa, but William Tyler, 78, a retired Pullman porter, and he was relishing the fulfillment of a lifetime dream...
From Los Angeles the private Pullman rolled to El Paso, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls, New York and Chicago, with leisurely, de luxe stopovers in each city. This week Tyler and friends headed for San Francisco and home. The whole excursion will cost the old porter about $15,000. Said Tyler: "I've got enough money left over to last me the rest of my life. But if I hit the Sweepstakes again in October, I'll hire another car and come back...
Research. In Pullman, Wash., the librarian of Washington State University reported the theft of Cheating-How It Can Be Stopped...