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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 dining cars, lounge cars, and especially sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by...
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    the "company town" of Pullman just outside of Chicago. Pullman was designed as a model community by its namesake founder and owner George Pullman. Jennie...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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