Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Budd Wheel Co. (Detroit) celebrated the production of its 1,000,000th shell on a U. S. defense contract. Budd also told an enlightening little story of defense production. To retool the Budd plant, make the first 1,000,000 shells, took 15 months. Time allotted for the next 1,000,000: two months...
...clothesline for Sinclair's review is a strategically placed young man named Lanny Budd. Lanny is the bastard son of a U. S. munitioneer and of a Parisian artists' model. As his father's son he meets all the interesting people who Socialist Sinclair thinks are indispensable to history. From them Lanny picks up all the dirt...
...friend Kurt, an ex-agent of the Kaiser who composes music and smolders over the bitter treatment of the Fatherland. Now & then Lanny's friend Rick turns up. He had wanted to be a dramatist, but as the decade progresses he becomes a leftish journalist. Not infrequently Father Budd dashes over from Connecticut to give the U. S. businessman's point of view; he talks to Lanny about sex and a career, and to Basil Zaharoff about armaments, oil, and what wires to pull. They go to a great-many conferences-San Remo, Spa, Cannes, Genoa-where Sinclair...
During 1941's first two months, car-loadings rose in a spectacular line from 3.6% above 1940 to 19.2%. (One growing reason for more carloadings: freight diversion from intercoastal shipping lines whose ships have been transferred to ocean routes.) Last week Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, optimistic as ever, predicted that 1941 would show an average gain of only 9.4% over 1940's carloadings. Yet already the average gain...
...apparently taken a long time to reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott (consumers), Chester C. Davis (agriculture), and Leon Henderson (prices). Henderson, a pigeon who hates holes, and who somehow had gotten on excellent terms with the $1-men, refused to be filed, sulked off to Florida for a sun tan and some long thoughts...