Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agency: The Office of Defense Transportation (see p. 60). ODT supplanted the last vestige of the now-extinct NDAC, the first defense organization set up by the President in May 1940. Out of a job (unless he accepts a post under Eastman) was Rail Coordinator Ralph Budd, exponent for 19 months of the theory that the railroads are ready. ODT's Eastman will boss rail, motor, inland waterway, coastal & intercoastal transport, and pipelines...
Shotwelding electrodes stab the metal for 1/10 th 1/20 th of a second, heating it so instantaneously through its danger zone to its 2,700° fusing point that the alloy's unique strength is not affected. Invented by Budd Manufacturing Co. (and used for making stainless steel railroad coaches), Shotwelding may well make steel planes lighter than even welded aluminum planes...
...Philadelphia, train-building Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. turned out its millionth aerial bomb. > In Detroit, where Ford and General Motors are getting ready to join Chrysler in producing tanks, the national production rate (now about 25 a day) is expected to reach 100 a day by spring...
...their next day's quota reduced. Crux of the coal problem is that the U.S. has never caught up with the coal lost in last April's 29-day strike.* All through late spring and summer the U.S. Government (from wolf-crying Harold Ickes to sanguine Ralph Budd) urged coal consumers to buy ahead, avoid the fall traffic peak. Yet, in the first seven months of this year, with industrial production up 15%, total coal loadings, which usually pace production (especially in boom periods), were up less than 8%; bituminous coal production through mid-September was up only...
Last week railroads, Government men and shippers held their breath to see if the railroads would squeak through October. At best, most of them expected some regional dislocations, brief but perhaps acute, and no one liked to think about the fall of 1942. Ralph Budd had estimated that the 1942 peak would require 160,000 more freight cars than there are now (other estimates went as high as 370,000 new cars). With or without a steel shortage, 160,000 is more new freight cars than have been built in any year since...