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...Budd Wheel...
...strict Chicago family, Mr. Andrews began work at 19 in the brokerage business and soon owned a company dealing in bank stocks and unlisted securities. Since then, he has financed (in some cases single-handed): a seal-top for milk bottles (Standard Cap & Seal); the Dictograph; the acousticon; Budd all-steel automobile bodies; Trans-Lux ticker. In all of these he remains the largest stockholder. He is also largest individual stockholder in Hup Motors...
...stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still is a director of Hupp Motor Car Corp. and of Budd Wheel...
Reports that President Ralph Budd of the U. S. Great Northern R. R. would spend "several years" assisting Soviet railway builders (TIME, May 12) simmered down to the fact that he and his son John, just graduated from Yale's scientific school, sailed from Manhattan last week "to spend several weeks in making a survey of the Russian-Siberian Railway facilities for the Soviet Government...
Great Northern (whose president, hard-working Ralph Budd, sails for Russia on June 1 for a three months' "vacation" during which he will incidentally reorganize the railroads of Russia along U. S. lines...