Pullman
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Pullman is the name of some places in the United States of America:
Pullman, Illinois, now within the city limits of Chicago, was a company town of the Pullman Company, where a famous strike took place in 1894. (See Pullman Strike.)
Pullman, Washington is the home of Washington State University.
The term Pullman was often used to refer to railroad sleeping cars in the United States; this term was learnt, and applied similarly, by the rail transport in Mexico. It also refers to railway dining cars in Europe, which were both run by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) or lounge cars operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. In Great Britain, Pullman refers to the lounge cars operated by the "British Pullman Car Company." Additionally in some Western European countries, along the 40's and 50's, the specially luxuriosus coaches were sometimes referred to as Auto-Pullmans. In Mexico, pullman may refer too to a luxury bus as well as a sleeping car. In architecture, pullman refers to a long, narrow room.
A pullman loaf refers to a long, square-edged loaf of bread. A pullman case or valise is a large piece of luggage.
[edit] Surname
- Alberte Pullman
- Bernard Pullman
- Bill Pullman
- George Pullman
- Philip Pullman, English writer
- Simon Pullman
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