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...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...
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...
From the first, the railroads insisted they could handle any traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...
Last fortnight Trustee Budd broke his silence, produced more sensational charges...