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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Budd Burgeons | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Budd Burgeons | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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