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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...
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...
Polo-playing William Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (private bankers). His job: liaison between Stettinius and Burlington's Ralph Budd, the commission's transportation...
That all is not what it seems is naturally well known to Lanny's father, Robbie Budd. A Yaleman sleek and capable as a panther, Robbie turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships...