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...Philadelphia, for Budd Manufacturing Co.—biggest U.S. builder of stainless-steel trains—the Government began to run up a vast plant which by next spring will be turning out all-steel air freighters, big-bellied and wide-hatched to carry troops, tanks, guns to the war's four quarters...
...boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd (TIME...
...Some other leading industrial designers noted for work on U.S. railroads: Henry Dreyfuss, who designs for the New York Central; Walter Dorwin Teague, who has done de luxe coaches for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Paul Cret, who designs interiors for stainless-steel trains of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing...
...realize that we're very close to losing it. What does it matter whether the government or the employers pay unemployment benefits to the Boston fishermen, as long as the army gets the fish? What does it matter whether the AF of L or the CIO organizes the Budd Manufacturing Company, so long as MacArthur gets the tanks? If the defense effort keep on going the way it is going now, Mrs. Roosevelt will be hanging from the nearest oak tree, John L. Lewis will be dangling right next to her, and Henry Ford won't know what...
...Franklin Roosevelt's good friend & neighbor, Judge John Mack, became president (at $90,000 a year); globe-trotting ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Ralph Budd, Robert L. Stevens became board members...