Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside Philadelphia, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. opened its spick-&-span $26,000,000 plant with a blare of publicity. A month later the Navy canceled its contract with Budd...
...trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees. At the huge General Electric, Westinghouse and Budd plants, production slumped more than...
...casualties, which hits individual U.S. homes but does not move the nation. But at some point the cumulative effect of the plant shutdowns would show. In Philadelphia the Defense Plant Corp. had spent a reported $16,000,000 to build an up-to-the-minute plant for Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., to turn out an order for some 800 stainless-steel Army & Navy cargo planes. With only four planes built, the Services cancelled their contracts for all but 25. WPB talked of new make-work contracts for Budd, the WPB solution to the Brewster shutdown (TIME, June...
Presidential Agent (Viking; $3) is the fifth volume of Author Sinclair's vast panel of novels on modern life (1,500,000 words). In it, his hero, idealist Lanny Budd, talks over his doubts and problems with his good friend, Franklin Roosevelt...
...case was typical of hundreds brought by NLRB during the great labor-management fights of the late 19305. After the company had dissolved its company union in 1942 at NLRB direction, shock-haired, persevering President Edward G. Budd wrote a letter to the 15,000 employes of his Philadelphia plant suggesting that the company union was a pretty good thing after all. He pointed out that in ten years it had raised the base-pay rate from 55? to $1.09 an hour. The C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, working to unionize the plant, screamed "coercion" and got NLRB...