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...long yellow oak table that is Edward G. Budd's desk last week came a $9,000,000 order from Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Detroit. This order for 10,000 stainless steel unassembled semitrailer bodies meant that at 69 courtly Edward Budd was crossing a new frontier in the Detroit automotive field, where for years he has sold bodies and wheels to Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and various others. That the No. 1 trailer manufacturer was going in for stainless steel in such a big way was good New Year's news for 27-year-old Edward...
Backbone of the Budd business is automotive, but that is relatively routine. The thing that stirs old Edward G. Budd and his veteran workmen in stainless steel is the sight of a gleaming new Diesel-powered (by G. M. C.'s Electro-Motive Corp.) streamline train rolling out of the yard to go into service on U. S. railroads. Last week, in the big, sprawling North Philadelphia plant, Budd workmen were finish ing up 50 streamline cars-for the Portuguese railway, Burlington, Santa Fe - and in the performance of streamliners already in service Budd could see the prospect...
That the streamliner has already given the roads a new hope is a feather for two caps. One feather is worn by Budd, the other by Pullman. When Pullman put out its first aluminum alloy Diesel streamliner in 1934, Budd followed in just two months with a sleek stainless steel job. These two manufacturers went right to work to show the railroads that business could be won by fast, comfortable trains with new-type accommodations for coach travelers...
Operating on U. S. tracks at year's end were some 85 streamliners, made by Pullman, Budd, American Car & Foundry and in railroad shops. A few were still being pulled by skirted, dressed-up steam locomotives, but the best records were being set by the Western roads that had gone whole hog and plumped for Diesel-electric power. Speeds had been stepped up enormously : Burlington's Fort Worth-Houston and Chicago-St. Paul trains were running on a 66.6-m. p. h. schedule; Union Pacific-Chicago & North Western's two City of Denver trains were averaging...
Other manuscripts include: "Timoleon," John Marr and Other Sailors," "Billy Budd," "Jack Gentian," "The River," "Rammon the Enviable Isles," and "The Admiral of the White...