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 it.
The RFC deal was a five-year lease on 77% of the new plant (rental $649,806 a year), with an option on the other 23% if...
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