Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edward G. Budd, 75, founder-president of the $80,000,000 Budd Co., which made the first marketable all-steel automobile body in 1912, the first streamlined stainless steel train (Zephyr) in 1934; of a heart attack; in Germantown...
...revoir, until next May when I hope to present you with volume VIII [of the Lanny Budd series...
...World to Win takes Presidential Agent Lanny Budd, a peripatetic pink who poses as a fascist, from the fall of France through the U.S. declaration of war. Lanny is a spy, plutocrat (son of a munitions magnate), sociologist, art expert, musician, "psychical researcher" and avid reader of Bluebook magazine-all in a handy, handsome, 6-ft. package...
...Budd Gets Around. As "chance" would have it, they arrive just as the Japs attack. One of the she-shipmates is missing in action. Lanny marries the other-an amateur medium who has spirited conversations with the late financier Otto Kahn. They escape through China, sit a spell with Communist Leader Mao Tze-tung, then fly to a Moscow powwow with Joseph Stalin, who says: "You are a well-informed man, Mr. Budd, and good company. The next time you come this way, I hope you won't fail to let me know...
Obediently, Beuttel and Daniels picked up their welding torches. With the rest of the bomb makers they reported to the company's employment office and were assigned to another assembly line. In a matter of minutes they were at work again-welding automobile bodies. Twenty-four hours later, Budd's first auto body in four years moved off the line...