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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...
...France; on such symptomatic side shows as the Lindbergh kidnap scare, Basil Zaharoff's patronage of mediums, and the game of put-&-take played at the Geneva Arms Limitation Conference. But he draws his most serious bead on Germany, and on what happened there to his hero Lanny Budd...
...Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
...efforts to help Johannes out of captivity, Hero Lanny Budd first gets a half-chance to realize that he is a brave, intelligent, responsible human being. In his effort to save Johannes' son Freddi, he is given still more dangerous opportunities, and meets them halfway. In the closing pages Lanny, tempered beyond any further possibility of being a playboy, sits in the room next to the rescued but ruined Freddi, silently crying, and realizing, of his life and of Europe: "He had traveled here and there over its surface, and everywhere had seen men diligently plowing the soil...
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...