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pullman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pullman car \Pull"man car`\ [Named after Mr. Pullman, who introduced them.] A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sleeping car on a passenger train, 1867, Pullman car, in recognition of U.S. inventor George M. Pullman (1831-1897) of Chicago, who designed a railroad car with folding berths.\n\nThe Pullman Sleeping Car.
--"The Western World." This splendid specimen of car architecture, being one of a number of sleeping-cars to be completed \nfor the Michigan Central road, by Mr. Pullman, has created a great sensation among railway circles east. ... The car itself is admitted by all who have seen it to be, in the matter of sleeping and cooking accessories, and superb finish, the ne plus ultra of perfection. Nothing before has been seen to equal, much less surpass it.
["Western Railroad Gazette," Chicago, quoted in "Appleton's Illustrated Railway and Steam Navigation Guide," New York, June, 1867]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 9398
Land area (2000): 9.002748 sq. miles (23.317010 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.002748 sq. miles (23.317010 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56625
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.732614 N, 117.171790 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99163
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Housing Units (2000): 69
Land area (2000): 0.242231 sq. miles (0.627376 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.242231 sq. miles (0.627376 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65956
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.188133 N, 80.951555 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 26421
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Pullman
Wikipedia
Pullman may refer to:
- Pullman (car or coach), various luxurious railway cars, cars, buses or coaches
- Pullman Company, maker of Pullman rail cars
- Pullman porter, a man hired by the Pullman Company to work as porter on sleeping cars
- Pullman (architecture), a long, narrow room
- Pullman F.C., Pullman Company soccer team
- Pullman loaf, a long, square-edged loaf of bread
- Pullman automobile by Pullman Motor Company, maker of automobiles in York, Pennsylvania from 1905-1917
- Humber Pullman, a large automobile manufactured in central England between 1930 and 1954
- Pullman Strike, a major American railroad strike in 1894
- Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, Albion, New York
- York Pullman, a bus operating company
- Pullman train (UK), mainline luxury railway services in Great Britain
- Pullman Hotels and Resorts, a brand part of the French AccorHotels group
- Pullman case or valise, a large piece of luggage; see suitcase
- Pullman Coaches, a bus operating company in Wales acquired by Veolia Transport Cymru, now Crossgates Coaches
Pullman is an architectural term for a long, narrow space within a structure. It is most often used to refer to a small kitchen ("a pullman kitchen") or, sometimes, a narrow hall.
The word is derived from the long sleeping cars on passenger trains created by the Pullman Company during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Pullman kitchens are most common in apartments, where space is limited, to minimize the kitchen's impact on living spaces.
Category:Architectural elements
In the United States, Pullman was used to refer to railroad sleeping cars which were built and operated on most U.S. railroads by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.
Pullman is an American, studio-only, folk and predominantly acoustic rock supergroup, formed in Chicago by Ken Brown, Curtis Harvey, Chris Brokaw, and Doug McCombs in the late 1990s.
Usage examples of "pullman".
Pullman coach had halted just opposite the spot where the twins and the flagman stood.
As he sat in his Pullman berth, fumblingly undressing, he wished that he were back in Kinnikinick, going to bed in the honorable cottage of the dean.
The Triton Battery Company came to Natchez in 1936 to build batteries for Pullman rail cars.
Hilton for the annual banquet of the Greater Portland Lumber Products Association, interviewing manufacturers of prefab pullmans, plyboard salesmen, and redwood-decking distributors.
The aft wall was taken up with two large bunks that went into the bulkhead like Pullman compartment sleepers, with a pulldown door that covered up the clutter of them.
From San Francisco he traveled by elegant Pullman car to Annapolis, where he was enrolled as a cadet.
In The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman deftly weaves the cliffhangers and mysteries of The Golden Compass and The Subtle.
At six oclock she fought her way through the crowded bus terminal, the bag clutched under one arm and the return half of her roundtrip ticket in the other hand, and was swept out onto the roaring platform on the diurnal tide of a few middleaged civilians but mostly soldiers and sailors enroute either to leave or to death and the homeless young women, their companions, who for two years now had lived from day to day in pullmans and hotels when they were lucky and in daycoaches and busses and stations and lobbies and public restrooms when not, pausing only long enough to drop their foals in charity wards or policestations and then move on again, and fought her way into the bus, smaller than any other there so that her feet touched the floor only occasionally until a shape (a man in khaki.
Pullman pushed back his half-eaten portion of baked Alaska, threw down a napkin, and rose with a discontented sigh.
It is true that on clear days, when the great trans-continental expresses, long lines of swaying Pullmans, swept through Fort Romper, passengers were overcome at the sight, and the cult that knows the brown-reds and the subdivisions of the dark greens of the East expressed shame, pity, horror, in a laugh.
After some difficulty he managed to get a glimpse of the whole of the fugitive's ticket and thus discovered that he was on his way to the City of Mexico, via Eagle Pass, Texas, while from the Pullman conductor he learned that Dodge had secured sleeping- car accommodation as far as San Antonio, Texas, only.
A long line of flatcars, Pullmans, and boxcars pushed up beside a concrete loading platform.
There was some crisp folding money in the zipper pocket, a Santa Fe timetable, the folder her ticket had been in and the stub of the railroad ticket and the Pullman reservation.
He could goddamned well afford a Pullman berth from California to Philly, even if they wouldn't give him credit for the government rail voucher and he had to pay for the whole damned thing himself.
I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners' dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last.