Pullman

Pullman is the name of some places in the United States of America:

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• Pullman, Michigan
• Pullman, Washington
• Pullman, Chicago
• Pullman, West Virginia

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.)

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Pullman, Washington is the home of Washington State University.

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The term Pullman was often used to refer to railroad sleeping cars in the United States, and 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 Britain, Pullman refers to the lounge cars operated by the "British Pullman Car Company."

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Philip Pullman is an English writer.

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