Word: bustleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia's Bustleton was bustling last week. Grey-haired, abstemious Edward Gowen Budd, 74, had just leased from RFC the $21-million. 24½-acre. Bustleton war plant (in which Budd has produced planes and munitions for two years) for his famed auto-body and streamlined train-building company. Budd's lease had set a reconversion mark for U.S. industry (particularly Competitor Pullman); no other company had taken over a plant so big from the war-industry plants now on the block, and reconverted...
Meantime, the whole, elaborate Budd railway car manufacturing division would be moved to Bustleton from its old cramped quarters in another part of Philadelphia. Tooling would start at once; production, set at a 600-car-a-year pace, would begin in the fall...
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