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...casualties, which hits individual U.S. homes but does not move the nation. But at some point the cumulative effect of the plant shutdowns would show. In Philadelphia the Defense Plant Corp. had spent a reported $16,000,000 to build an up-to-the-minute plant for Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., to turn out an order for some 800 stainless-steel Army & Navy cargo planes. With only four planes built, the Services cancelled their contracts for all but 25. WPB talked of new make-work contracts for Budd, the WPB solution to the Brewster shutdown (TIME, June...
Presidential Agent (Viking; $3) is the fifth volume of Author Sinclair's vast panel of novels on modern life (1,500,000 words). In it, his hero, idealist Lanny Budd, talks over his doubts and problems with his good friend, Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week in Philadelphia the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did something to correct this one-sided conversational rule. Before the court was a motion to cite the $59,000,000 Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. for contempt of court...
...case was typical of hundreds brought by NLRB during the great labor-management fights of the late 19305. After the company had dissolved its company union in 1942 at NLRB direction, shock-haired, persevering President Edward G. Budd wrote a letter to the 15,000 employes of his Philadelphia plant suggesting that the company union was a pretty good thing after all. He pointed out that in ten years it had raised the base-pay rate from 55? to $1.09 an hour. The C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, working to unionize the plant, screamed "coercion" and got NLRB...
...grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected...