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...World to Win takes Presidential Agent Lanny Budd, a peripatetic pink who poses as a fascist, from the fall of France through the U.S. declaration of war. Lanny is a spy, plutocrat (son of a munitions magnate), sociologist, art expert, musician, "psychical researcher" and avid reader of Bluebook magazine-all in a handy, handsome, 6-ft. package...
...Budd Gets Around. As "chance" would have it, they arrive just as the Japs attack. One of the she-shipmates is missing in action. Lanny marries the other-an amateur medium who has spirited conversations with the late financier Otto Kahn. They escape through China, sit a spell with Communist Leader Mao Tze-tung, then fly to a Moscow powwow with Joseph Stalin, who says: "You are a well-informed man, Mr. Budd, and good company. The next time you come this way, I hope you won't fail to let me know...
...assemble the curious document, U.S. moviemen, including Commander Ray Kellogg and Lieutenant Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg, tracked down film which was hidden in cellars, locked in vaults and plastered in farmhouse walls throughout Europe. The result is a pretty full record of the little group of Nazi orators from bustling youth to beribboned...
...Philadelphia plant of the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., greying, husky Eugene Beuttel and his partner, Samuel Daniels, worked at a long assembly line. On it, fins for 500-lb. bombs moved slowly along. As they moved, Beuttel and Daniels welded the fins, in an electric blue blaze of light. Suddenly the line stopped moving. A foreman's voice shouted an order...
Obediently, Beuttel and Daniels picked up their welding torches. With the rest of the bomb makers they reported to the company's employment office and were assigned to another assembly line. In a matter of minutes they were at work again-welding automobile bodies. Twenty-four hours later, Budd's first auto body in four years moved off the line...