Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assemble the curious document, U.S. moviemen, including Commander Ray Kellogg and Lieutenant Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg, tracked down film which was hidden in cellars, locked in vaults and plastered in farmhouse walls throughout Europe. The result is a pretty full record of the little group of Nazi orators from bustling youth to beribboned...
...Philadelphia plant of the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., greying, husky Eugene Beuttel and his partner, Samuel Daniels, worked at a long assembly line. On it, fins for 500-lb. bombs moved slowly along. As they moved, Beuttel and Daniels welded the fins, in an electric blue blaze of light. Suddenly the line stopped moving. A foreman's voice shouted an order...
...good example of how the railroads will pamper their passengers with new equipment was the $6 million, 60-car order which, last week, was ready for signing with the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. Three railroads (the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Western Pacific) plan to operate the new equipment in ten-car, diesel-powered daily streamliners be tween Chicago and San Francisco. The first of the new trains will go into service next summer...
With trains like these, 74-year-old Edward G. Budd believes that plenty of passengers will still travel by rail in the postwar air and auto age. But Budd wants speed too: he holds that the railroads' ultimate goal should be a 50-hour coast-to-coast streamliner, charging $70 in the coaches...
Timorous stockholders, who have borne previous Budd spending (Budd ideas have sometimes lost money at a million a clip), shuddered. But they had small reason. The company had over $19 million in working capital, and already held backlog orders for 700 railroad cars. Budd also expects to expand its truck-trailer business, plus its customary body-building orders from Ford, International Harvester, Chrysler, G.M., Nash and Studebaker. The railroad orders alone are greater than the company's entire prewar output...