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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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    for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired black men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters...
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    Pullman is the term for railroad sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31...
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    their own communities. Working for the Pullman Company was, however, less glamorous than the image the company promoted. Porters depended on tips for...
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    berths, and serve passengers. Pullman porters served American railroads from the late 1860s until the Pullman Company ceased its United States operations...
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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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    employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. Most of the factory workers who built Pullman cars lived...
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    first-class coaches and a steward service, provided by the British Pullman Car Company (PCC) from 1874 until 1962, and then by British Railways from 1962...
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    The Pullman loaf, sometimes called the "sandwich loaf" or "pan bread", is a rectangular loaf of white bread baked in a long, narrow, lidded pan. The French...
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    historic area is usually referred to as "North Pullman"). The development built by the Pullman Company is bounded by 103rd Street on the North, 115th...
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    The Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. No. 1) is a former Pullman Company private car that served as Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 from...
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    became general counsel of the Pullman Company, and after founder George Pullman died in 1897, Lincoln assumed the company's presidency. After retiring from...
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    bought the Pullman Company from Pullman Incorporated, and subsequently railroads owned and operated Pullman-made sleeping cars themselves. Pullman-Standard...
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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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    Pullman Company as the Pullman Gallery Car. It has had five total different manufacturers since its creation, including Budd, St. Louis Car Company,...
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    Midland Railway Pullman coach introduced in 1874, named "Midland" which was of clerestory roofed design, imported from the Pullman Company in the US and...
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    The Pullman was an American automobile that was manufactured in York, Pennsylvania by the York Motor Car Company from 1905 to 1909 and the Pullman Motor...
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    of the Pullman Company and became one of the most well-known company towns in the United States, as well as the scene of the violent 1894 Pullman strike...
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    forced the Pullman Company to divest ownership in the town, which was annexed to Chicago. However, government observers maintained that Pullman's principles...
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  • life: Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Pullman coaches. George Pullman Pullman Company (USA) GWR Super Saloons Clerestory, Wikipedia article...
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    used by the Pratt Engineering Company from 1904 and the Pullman Company from 1926 to 1955. Southern Iron and Equipment Company purchased the yard in 1955...
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    the Pullman Car Company, which the British Transport Commission (BTC) had acquired in 1954. Shortly after their introduction, in 1962, the Pullman Car...
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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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    was initially inhabited by workers of the Pullman Train Company looking to escape the grip of the company town, but soon swelled with industrial workers...
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    Foundry Company 1912 Lounges Santa Fe #3231: parlor-club car Pullman Company 1914 Santa Fe #1363: Lounge-dormitory-barbershop San Bartolo, Pullman Company 1926...
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    the workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company launched a wildcat strike against their employer. The Pullman Company had begun a company town on the outskirts...
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  • passengers on the last Pullman sleeping car trip between Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. Operations of the Pullman Company sleeper cars ceased...
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    Pullman is the most populous city in Whitman County, located in southeastern Washington within the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. The population...
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  • Henry Sturgis Morgan (category American financial company founders)
    Museum, served on the boards of J.P. Morgan & Co., General Electric and Pullman Company, served as trustee of the Groton School and Museum of Modern Art and...
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    loading gauge to be more opulent than the rival Pullman Company coaches offered by rival railway companies, and all named after members of the British Royal...
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