Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even some railroad men are a little scared. Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd himself last fortnight wrote a letter to all U.S. shippers calling for "new records in the volume of transportation rendered per unit of serviceable equipment," hinting gently at the possibility of seven-day operations. A.A.R. Vice President Buford has already told members that they will have to reduce the average turn-around on freight cars to 11.8 days, a new low record (best previous: 12 days), made even more difficult by the fact that intercoastal shipping diversion is enforcing much longer hauls...
Estimates of October freight-car supplies and loadings were a dime a dozen last week. Ralph Budd admitted that there would be 20,000 fewer new cars than the roads had planned for; the National Planning Association predicted a 40,000-50,000 car shortage; the latest OPM report figured there would be a deficit of 80,000 cars. But on one score there was clear agreement: the coal movement might be the backbreaking straw...
...used by one responsible agency, caused the endless, fruitless arguments which snarled the whole first year of defense. The lack accounted for steel and aluminum shortages which cropped up right after the Office of Production Management had declared them impossible. It created a long crossfire between Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, who thought rail capacity was lovely, and New Deal economists who thought it was lousy. It was still apparent last week in such unintelligible mazes as the Eastern Seaboard oil situation...
...deficit might not materialize. Tank cars, which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
...cashing in on the by-products of his reputation. Besides his take from writing and broadcasting, he is getting a fee reported to be around $20,000 for nine weeks' work as technical adviser for an RKO film called Passage from Bordeaux (adapted from a novelette by Budd Schulberg). Shirer was offered a small part in this refugee drama as a radio broadcaster but turned it down on the grounds that his screen face is depressing...