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...from the railroads that they can handle all the country's transportation needs without additional facilities. In this respect, Henderson's new commission represents a major setback for Director of Priorities E. R. Stettinius Jr., who never publicly questioned the Gano Dunn report, and Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, who has consistently soft-pedaled agitation for increased railroad capacity...
...position of Stettinius and Budd is still further impaired by Henderson's power over priorities for the production and the transportation of civilian supplies. A further indication of their waning influence was given when the President mentioned Budd in press conference as one of the only two members of the original NDAC he had not taken care of in the new defense setup (the other: Chester Davis, who has just been given a Reserve Bank job in St. Louis...
Last week Budd Wheel Co. (Detroit) celebrated the production of its 1,000,000th shell on a U. S. defense contract. Budd also told an enlightening little story of defense production. To retool the Budd plant, make the first 1,000,000 shells, took 15 months. Time allotted for the next 1,000,000: two months...
...spite of his 26 years, Author Budd Schulberg was well equipped to tackle the job. He was raised in Hollywood where his father, B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, has been a top producer for 20-odd years. Since graduating from Dartmouth in 1936, he has worked off & on as a screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms...
...friend Kurt, an ex-agent of the Kaiser who composes music and smolders over the bitter treatment of the Fatherland. Now & then Lanny's friend Rick turns up. He had wanted to be a dramatist, but as the decade progresses he becomes a leftish journalist. Not infrequently Father Budd dashes over from Connecticut to give the U. S. businessman's point of view; he talks to Lanny about sex and a career, and to Basil Zaharoff about armaments, oil, and what wires to pull. They go to a great-many conferences-San Remo, Spa, Cannes, Genoa-where Sinclair...