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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other manuscripts include: "Timoleon," John Marr and Other Sailors," "Billy Budd," "Jack Gentian," "The River," "Rammon the Enviable Isles," and "The Admiral of the White...
...accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs an unheard...
...commission, was speedily apparent. President Roosevelt had no comment, but almost every railroad executive had plenty to say. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads was most temperate: "We're glad to have what they gave us, but we're disappointed." President Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: "This increase, in my opinion, is nowhere near adequate. . . ." Chief Executive Edward Miall Durham Jr. of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific: "Quite unsatisfactory...
...special service in Chicago's First Unitarian Church dedicated to U. S. railroaders, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Albert Nathaniel Williams of Chicago & Western Indiana, worshipped, afterwards inspected a 200-lb. miniature locomotive which had been set on the altar...
Rest of the way is over the trackless sands. Lightness was therefore a prime consideration. E. G. Budd Co. followed the formula that has made it the most successful U. S. builder of lightweight streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been...