10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULLMAN CAR»
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1
Whispers Along the Rails (Postcards from Pullman Book #2)
Olivia Mott finds herself juggling two jobs: her assistant chef position at Hotel Florence and her undercover work for the Pullman Rail Car Company.
2
Uncertain Dream, An (Postcards from
Pullman Book #3)
When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest of their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault.
3
Travel by
Pullman: A Century of Service, 1865-1969
During the early spring of 1934 it made a 1 2,625-mile test and exhibition trip
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. (The Pullman car was not a part of the
original three-car train which made this epochal trip.) It was exhibited in 68 cities
in which ...
Joe Welsh, Bill Howes, 2004
4
Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition
Pullman Car Hiawatha, one of the most direct manifestations of American
Puritanism as it survived into the twentieth century (surpassed only by Our Town
and The Skin of Our Teeth), is another paean to progress on the individual, social
, and ...
5
Trains and Technology: Cars
The first all-steel Pullman car was manufactured in 1908.'" There were critics,
notably Mackay, the author of Railway Antiques, who claimed that "Pullman's
early success was not due to the palatial comfort of his cars (which were shoddy
and ...
Anthony J. Bianculli, 2002
6
The American Railroad Passenger
Car
During the next year or two, nearly ninety steel passenger cars of various types
were produced at the Pullman car works for the Harriman Lines and the New
York Central. A new steel car plant was outfitted at the Chicago works in 1909 to
...
7
The
Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on ...
Pullman, like many others, still searched for an effective management structure
for the company's far-flung operations. The Pullman Car Works, despite its great
size, relied on a traditional shop system in which a superintendent gave
individual ...
Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, Nick Salvatore, 1999
8
The
Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of ...
Eventually, out of its earnings, the Pullman Car Company purchased all the
shares in the Pullman Land Association; and, although the two enterprises were
thus owned and controlled by the same interests, the fiction of their remaining ...
9
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History
Attractive brick row houses, wide streets, utilities, indoor plumbing, and nearby
shops and parks offered clean, spacious, healthy rental housing for Pullman car
builders, seamstresses, and car repairmen. The town of Pullman quickly attracted
...
AXXx*" Pullman Car Names Tell a Story of What's Inside the Car There's a
system in the naming of Pullman sleepers and parlor cars, and if you know the
system you can often tell what type of cars makes up the passing train. The well-
traveled ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PULLMAN CAR»
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Pullman car bound for trips between Fort Wayne, Lafayette
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A rare, refurbished luxury Pullman rail car is set to depart Fort Wayne this weekend, offering passengers an idea of what it was like to ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
