Word: budd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Bank Stock Corp. In addition to banking, Mr. Jaffray is president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo") Ry., subsidiary of the C. P. R. When he attends First Bank Stock Corp. directors' meetings he is joined by five other presidents of Northwestern railroads; Ralph Budd of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern, Henry Alexander Scandrrett of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, Frederick Ely Williamson of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. President Jaffray is spectacled, quiet, usually law-abiding. He was not law-abiding last autumn when...
...Budd Wheel...
...strict Chicago family, Mr. Andrews began work at 19 in the brokerage business and soon owned a company dealing in bank stocks and unlisted securities. Since then, he has financed (in some cases single-handed): a seal-top for milk bottles (Standard Cap & Seal); the Dictograph; the acousticon; Budd all-steel automobile bodies; Trans-Lux ticker. In all of these he remains the largest stockholder. He is also largest individual stockholder in Hup Motors...
...stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still is a director of Hupp Motor Car Corp. and of Budd Wheel...
Reports that President Ralph Budd of the U. S. Great Northern R. R. would spend "several years" assisting Soviet railway builders (TIME, May 12) simmered down to the fact that he and his son John, just graduated from Yale's scientific school, sailed from Manhattan last week "to spend several weeks in making a survey of the Russian-Siberian Railway facilities for the Soviet Government...