Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosa Ponselle was ready to cooperate. In June the new manager will sail for Europe to sign more contracts. He was expected to be more lenient than Witherspoon in the matter of concerts, although he called them hazardous. "You come in from an engagement and catch cold on a Pullman. You are unavailable, not only while you are away, but while...
...Pullman Company, whose headforemost practice frankly originated with considerations of ventilation, contemplates a canvass of passenger preference in air-conditioned sleepers in which the ventilation factor does not prevail...
...conducted a personal experiment years ago to determine the reason why Pullman sleepers ride headfirst. . . . The time came for the porter to make up our berths. Seeing that all of them were made up with the head forward, I determined to be different, rode feetfirst, awoke in the morning with a heavy deposit of cinders from the open window in my eyes, ears, mouth, nose...
Aware of the cinders-&-soot nuisance in early sleeping cars, Professor Laird considered that factor removed by modern fine-mesh screens in Pullman windows- an assumption which many a traveler would dispute...
Shrewd Professor Donald Anderson Laird's query to the American Medical Association anent "a rational physiological explanation for having a Pullman passenger's head in the direction of motion" (TIME, April 29) is virtually identical in phraseology with a question put to Professor Laird last January in behalf of progress-minded Willis G. Gray, novelist-president of enterprising Scully-Walton Company, world's oldest (1882) and largest operators of private ambulances (New York, Brooklyn, The Bronx and London...