Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.

After Woodruff's departure in 2007, Associate Artistic Director Gideon Lester took the reins for 2008-09 season, and in May 2008 Diane Paulus was named the new Artistic Director.

" Because it had been Mormon practice for over 25 years to either evade or ignore anti-polygamy laws, Woodruff's statement was a signal that a change in church policy was developing.

According to JT Woodruff's February SayNow voice message ( also uploaded on the band's Twitter ), Micah Carli plays ukulele, mandolin, and various other " weird instruments " in the lute family for many of the bonus tracks on Skeletons.

The honors for recapturing the Rock went to the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team of Lt. Col. George M. Jones and elements of Maj. Gen. Roscoe B. Woodruff's 24th Infantry Division, the same units which undertook the capture of Mindoro island.

He received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was the starting quarterback for coach Bob Woodruff's Florida Gators football team in 1950 and 1951, and a standout catcher for coach Dave Fuller's Gators baseball team in 1951 and 1952.

One of Joseph Woodruff's sons, Thomas, remained in the area and dreamed of founding a town, but he did not live to see Woodruff incorporated.

Among Woodruff's children was the LDS Church apostle Abraham O. Woodruff.

Woodruff's main aide in this endeavor was John D. T. McAllister, who served as first counselor in the St. George Temple Presidency and then succeeded Woodruff as Temple President in 1884.

* Homes of Wilford Woodruff Pictures of some of Wilford Woodruff's houses.

* Bille Woodruff on VidDug – List of Bille Woodruff's music video credits with links to videos

Azimuth barely has time to hide Woodruff before the BigWig breaks into their home, kidnapping the Professor and ruthlessly gunning down Woodruff's beloved teddy bear in the process, but not before befitting him with a Viblefrotzer, an invention of his own design that helps rapidly speed the aging process ( and looks eerily similar to a Sony Walkman ).

Woodruff's strategy had been immensely successful.

Although Katie Couric is the first woman named as permanent solo anchor of a network evening newscast, Vargas can be considered the first de facto solo woman evening news anchor, given that she anchored many broadcasts alone after Bob Woodruff's injury in Iraq in January 2006.

Therefore, the town was named in Thomas Woodruff's honor.

Other companies that sprang up during this period were Knoxville Woolen Mills, Dixie Cement, and Woodruff's Furniture.

The final element in President Woodruff's revelatory experience came on the evening of September 23, 1890.

Six months later, in the October general conference, Anthon H. Lund was called to fill President Woodruff's vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles .< center >

Following Woodruff's severe injury on January 29, 2006, while on assignment in Iraq, and Vargas's announcement that she was pregnant, some critics questioned whether Vargas could sustain the program on her own, pointing to falling ratings.

In July 2006, Cindy Adams of the New York Post reported that Gibson would become Woodruff's " Temporary Permanent Replacement " on World News Tonight.

Woodruff's large collection of diaries provides an important record of Latter Day Saint history, and his decision to formally end the practice of plural marriage among the members of the LDS Church in 1890 brought to a close one of the most difficult periods of church history.

Woodruff's wives bore him a total of thirty-three children, with thirteen preceding him in death.

Woodruff's greatest missionary success resulted from his work among the 600 members of the United Brethren in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Some historians consider the 1890 Manifesto to be Woodruff's most important contribution to the church.

This change was closely connected with Woodruff's founding of the Genealogical Society of Utah and is a contributing factor to the modern family history program of the LDS Church.

The church faced severe financial difficulties during Woodruff's tenure, some of which were related to the legal problems over plural marriage.

* 1978 – The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

* 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

In a letter White wrote in response to inquiries from readers, ".. many years ago I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a mouse.

* The Navajo ( sleeper car ), a sleeping car on the Super Chief passenger train

The transcontinental railroad provided much faster, safer, and cheaper transportation ( one week from Omaha to San Francisco via emigrant sleeping car at a fare of about $ 65 for an adult ) for people and goods across the western two-thirds of the continent.

* Taos, was a sleeping car built by the Budd Company in 1938 for use on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's passenger train, the Super Chief

As of 2011, the cost was £ 75 per caravan which allows access to the site with a towing vehicle and the caravan ; the car, or other vehicle used to tow the caravan, may be parked alongside it but sleeping is only authorised in the caravan, not in the accompanying vehicle.

* 1999-Trans World Radio goes on the air from Grigoriopol ( Moldova ) using a 1-million-watt AM transmitter ; Veteran Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons are burned alive by Hindu extremists as they are sleeping in a car in eastern India.

Amtrak Viewliner, a single-level sleeping car.

The sleeping car or sleeper ( often ) is a railway / railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful.

In the United States today, all regularly scheduled sleeping car services are operated by Amtrak.

In Canada, all regularly scheduled sleeping car services are operated by Via Rail Canada, using a mixture of relatively new cars and refurbished mid-century ones ; the latter cars include both private rooms and " open section " accommodations.

An example of a more basic type of sleeping car is the European couchette car, which is divided into compartments for four or six people, with bench-configuration seating during the day and " privacyless " double-or triple-level bunk-beds at night.

Even more basic is the Chinese " hard " sleeping car in use today, consisting of fixed bunk beds, which cannot be converted into seats, in a public space.

The first American sleeping car, the " Chambersburg " started service on the CVRR in 1839

The Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in the spring of 1839, with a car named " Chambersburg ," between Chambersburg and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In 1857, the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts-one of the United States ' first makers of railway passenger coach equipment-produced America's first, specifically designed sleeping car.

The man who ultimately made the sleeping car business profitable in the United States was George Pullman, who began by building a luxurious sleeping car ( named Pioneer ) in 1865.