pullman

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Englisch - Türkisch
pulman
yataklı vagon
{i} konforlu vagon
lüks vagon
rahat koltuklu lüks vagon
Pullman car mark

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pullman car
yataklı vagon
pullman car
koltuklu lüks vagon
Englisch - Englisch
A railroad passenger car; especially, one of the luxurious ones named after the eponymous Pullman Palace Car Company
A Pullman is a type of train or railway carriage which is extremely comfortable and luxurious. You can also refer to a Pullman train or a Pullman carriage
A Pullman or a Pullman car on a train is a railway car that provides beds for passengers to sleep in. a very comfortable train carriage, or a train made up of these carriages (George M. Pullman (1831-97), U.S. inventor who designed the car;)
{i} sleeping car on a train
A sleeping car on a railroad
luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel
Also known as an Upright Case The standard large suitcase-style case These days almost all such cases have wheels on one short end, with a telescoping handle on the opposite end for pulling the case behind you

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Pullman car
A railroad passenger car; especially, one of the luxurious ones named after the eponymous Pullman Palace Car Company
Pullman Strike
(May 11- July 20, 1894) Massive railroad strike in the U.S. After financial reversals caused the Pullman Palace Car Co. to cut wages by 25%, local union members called a strike. The company's president, George Pullman, refused arbitration, and union president Eugene V. Debs called for a nationwide boycott of Pullman cars. Sympathy strikes followed in 27 states. Violence broke out in Chicago, Ill., but Gov. John Peter Altgeld refused to intervene. The U.S. attorney general, Richard Olney, obtained an injunction against the strikers for impeding the mail service, and federal troops were called in. Debs's conviction for conspiring against interstate commerce established that the Sherman Antitrust Act could be enforced against labour-unions
pullman car
A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; often shortened to Pullman
pullman car
luxurious passenger sleeping car on a train
pullman porter
porter: a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
George M Pullman
born March 3, 1831, Brocton, N.Y., U.S. died Oct. 19, 1897, Chicago, Ill. U.S. industrialist. He moved to Chicago as a young man and worked as a cabinetmaker for his brother. In 1858 he remodeled two day coaches for a local railroad company into sleeping coaches; eventually he set up his own firm, and the first true Pullman sleeping car appeared in 1865. Becoming wealthy from his invention, in 1867 he founded the Pullman Palace Car Company; the next year he created the first dining car. In 1880 he built the town of Pullman (now incorporated into Chicago) for its workers; a much-discussed social experiment, the town was also the scene of the famous Pullman Strike of 1894
George Mortimer Pullman
born March 3, 1831, Brocton, N.Y., U.S. died Oct. 19, 1897, Chicago, Ill. U.S. industrialist. He moved to Chicago as a young man and worked as a cabinetmaker for his brother. In 1858 he remodeled two day coaches for a local railroad company into sleeping coaches; eventually he set up his own firm, and the first true Pullman sleeping car appeared in 1865. Becoming wealthy from his invention, in 1867 he founded the Pullman Palace Car Company; the next year he created the first dining car. In 1880 he built the town of Pullman (now incorporated into Chicago) for its workers; a much-discussed social experiment, the town was also the scene of the famous Pullman Strike of 1894
Philip Pullman
{i} (born 1946) English author, author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy
pullman

    Silbentrennung

    Pull·man

    Türkische aussprache

    pûlmın

    Aussprache

    /ˈpo͝olmən/ /ˈpʊlmən/

    Etymologie

    [ 'pul-m&n ] (noun.) 1867. short for Pullman car, after the Pullman Palace Car Company, after George Pullman
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