Word: budd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was one body which made the rest seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop...
...from the hotel in which the Mercedes was exhibited, another car with a steel body by Budd lay on its side?a Jordan which had just rolled down a 90-foot embankment in North Carolina. Mechanics righted it. The body, which had somersaulted six times, was practically unhurt. Away it drove to the Jordan plant 1,000 miles distant to be rehabilitated...
John R. Freeman of Providence, consulting engineer and expert on hydraulics, sketched the career of a fellow engineer, witnessed the affection of other engineers for this particular member. Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern R. R.. lauded the laying out of that road, the planning and organization of the Panama Canal. Roland S. Morris, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan, extolled the administration of the Trans-Siberian Railway during the War. Then French, Chinese and Japanese Ambassadors, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Elihu Root. Robert Lansing and many another had sent complimentary telegrams, letters...
...Yard Hurdles.--Won by Sears, Harvard; second, Budd, Exeter; third, Monks, Harvard. Time...
Kenneth P. Budd '02 of New York...