Word: budd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Northern (whose president, hard-working Ralph Budd, sails for Russia on June 1 for a three months' "vacation" during which he will incidentally reorganize the railroads of Russia along U. S. lines...
This the Great Northern R. R. did last week. If a corporation can be sorry, Great Northern must be sad to see President Ralph Budd go (he sails June i for Mos cow). He knows every part of his com pany, has tended it tenderly. Indeed the announcement at Chicago read: "The invitation to go to Russia was extended to Mr. Budd by the Soviet Government be cause the topography of the Great North ern Railway is said to greatly resemble that over which many Russian railroads...
Northerns. Another important event of the railroad week transpired at J. P. Morgan & Co. when President Ralph Budd of Great Northern, President Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, President Frederick Ely Williamson of Burlington, and Arthur Curtiss James, largest Great Northern stockholder, met to discuss means to merge Great Northern and Northern Pacific as proposed by the I. C. C. Awaited for many years, this merger is now held up by the difficulties, financial and legal, attendant upon the two roads divesting themselves of Burlington stock, against which they have issued bonds...
Such a decision pleased nobody. Ralph Budd, G. N. President, Charles Donnelly. N. P. President, declared that the G. N. P. had to have the C. B. & Q. to reach Chicago from Minneapolis, that it was the eastern pivot of the whole merger. Sena tors and congressmen from the northwest flayed the juncture of these two roads, insisted that it would reduce competition in that territory to the vanishing point...