Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into action went potent Publisher Carter. In a two-column, front-page editorial entitled Mr. Budd Bows His Neck he blazed away at Burlington President Ralph Budd (member of Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission) "for sacrificing the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway on the altar of Burlington front-office convenience." The "Burlington Boys," he roared, had put the "snatch" on the road to bolster deficit-ridden C. & S., were cold to the fact that 190-odd Fort Worthians would lose their jobs by removal of the offices to Denver. He even suggested that Texas, whose railroad taxes were...
...Fort Worth's Junior Chamber of Commerce. To celebrate the inauguration of a new streamlined train (Texas Zephyr) this week between Dallas, Fort Worth and Denver, the Junior Chambermen had planned an elaborate ceremony with General Motors' famed vice president, Inventor Charles Kettering, as principal speaker. Mr. Budd and his unrelated namesake, Edward G. Budd, streamlined-train maker, were to be on hand too. Last week the ceremony was abruptly called...
That was Dallas' cue. If Fort Worth wouldn't be hospitable, Dallas would. This week Dallas businessmen and civic leaders arranged a monster ceremony to greet F. W. & D. C.'s new Zephyr. Their guests of honor: Fort Worth's Rejects Kettering, Budd, Budd...
Trustbuster Arnold asked for separation of Pullman's operating and manufacturing functions. He also asked revision of its railroad car contracts to give the roads and other, newer train makers (such as Budd Manufacturing Co.) a better break. Chief apparent weakness of his suit was its timing. For Pullman-Standard is busy on a $3,000,000 shell order from Britain, last week got a $254,000 educational order for shells from the U. S. War Department. Moreover, Pullman-Standard's freight car capacity (74,700) may well be sorely needed to keep U. S. railroads ahead...
...consultants to Railroader Ralph Budd, Defense Advisory Commissioner in charge of transportation, went A. T. Wood, president of Lake Carriers Association; Edward Vincent Rodgers, president of American Trucking Association; Frederick C. Homer, assistant to the chairman of General Motors; Arthur Middleton Hill, president of National Association of Motor Bus Operators and Atlantic Greyhound Corp...