George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping...
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The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th...
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"company town" of Pullman just outside of Chicago. Pullman was designed as a model community by its namesake founder and owner George Pullman. Jennie Curtis...
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Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968. Railway dining cars in the U.S. and Europe were operated by the Pullman Company. And lounge...
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Railway service pioneer George Pullman chose the loaf for use on his Pullman railcars for efficiency reasons. Three Pullman loaves occupied the same...
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founded as Three Forks, the city was renamed after industrialist George Pullman in 1884. Pullman is noted as a fertile agricultural area known for its many...
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Lewis James Pullman is an American actor. A son of actor Bill Pullman, he began his acting career with the film The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017), starring...
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Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought...
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Sleeping car (redirect from Pullman sleeping car)
passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.[citation needed] The...
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Middle-East and Oceania. The name Pullman was indirectly inspired by George Pullman (1831–1897), founder of the Pullman Company, a prosperous 19th-century...
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Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop, Pullman...
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Look up Pullman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pullman may refer to: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois Pullman, Michigan Pullman, Texas Pullman, Washington...
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administration. Lincoln became general counsel of the Pullman Company, and after founder George Pullman died in 1897, Lincoln assumed the company's presidency...
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formed in 1882 and named after the Pullman concept pioneered in the United States by the American railroader George Pullman. The company entered into contracts...
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for George Pullman as a place to produce the Pullman railroad-sleeping cars. Originally built beyond the Chicago city limits, it is in the Pullman community...
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William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater, he was an adjunct professor...
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travel on Pullman carriages. He became convinced that there was a market for Pullman-type carriages in Europe. After a proposal to George Pullman to collaborate...
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custom of the time when Pullman porters, all of whom were black, were addressed as "George"; a sobriquet for George Pullman, who owned the company that...
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The post office was renamed Pullman in 1901, apparently after George Pullman. The ZIP code for Pullman is 49450. "Pullman". Geographic Names Information...
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United States George (ship), an Australian sloop wrecked in 1806 Kawanishi N1K-J, a Japanese fighter aircraft Allied codenamed "George" Pullman porters, often...
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (redirect from Pullman Union)
as "George", the first name of George Pullman, the company's founder (see also Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George"). The...
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Pullman was platted in 1883, and named after George Pullman, a businessperson in the rail industry. Pullman is located at 39°11′17″N 80°57′6″W / 39.18806°N...
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American Railway Union (section Pullman Strike)
called Pullman, Illinois, incorporated into the city of Chicago in 1889. The company and town were namesakes of its millionaire owner, George Pullman. The...
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Ninny Threadgoode Chris O'Donnell as Buddy Threadgoode Stan Shaw as Big George Pullman Gailard Sartain as Ed Couch Tim Scott as Smokey Lonesome Gary Basaraba...
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to by the name "George" regardless of their actual name. The appellation may have stemmed from the name of George Pullman of the Pullman Company, which...
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ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. historically known as the Mrs. George Pullman House, is located at 1125 16th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. in...
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inventor George Pullman helped to invent the sleeping car, a railroad passenger car whose seats could be converted into sleeping bunks. The Pullman sleeping...
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1895) as a memorial to the parents of inventor and industrialist George Mortimer Pullman. The structure, built of pink Medina sandstone and featuring fifty-six...
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Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman CBE FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and...
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The Blue Pullmans were luxury trains used from 1960 to 1973 by British Rail. They were the first Pullman diesel multiple units, incorporating several...
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