Word: automan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murphey Canaday, board chairman of Willys and owner of 52% of its stock, over policy and production. On top of this; their personalities had clashed. That was natural. Canaday is primarily a salesman. He started his business life selling stoves, joined Willys in 1916 as advertising director. With old Automan John North Willys, he helped start the first company to sell cars on the installment plan. On the side he found time to run his own ad agency (U.S. Advertising Corp.). When Willys was reorganized in 1936, Canaday came...
...Meade L. Bricker, 60, to the all-important job of Ford production boss, to replace Ray Rausch, Bennett protege (Rausch was shunted down the ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...
...automan last week would bet a dime on the accuracy of his answers to these questions...
...deeply engaged in war production to consider it now. The real reason: the War Production Board's "Blue Order," under which the industry could order production materials now for delivery later, was only paper. Automen would not get the materials until WPB decided to release them; and no automan can plan production unless he knows what materials he will get, how much, and when...
...industry must be ready to perform fantastic tasks. Warned Automan Hoffman: "The very toughness of the assignment makes clear the necessity of starting to plan now. When the fighting is over, ex-soldiers on street corners selling apples . . . people starving in one part of the country while food surpluses rot in another would be death rattles for private business...