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Nordhoff looked little better than the plant. A lifelong automan, he had risen to the top in General Motors' German subsidiary, Adam Opel, A.G., and bossed its big truck plant during the war. At war's end, he had lost his job, his money and most of his belongings. Gaunt and hungry, Nordhoff scraped along for two years on handouts from friends; because he had been a top executive, he was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor-and even such jobs were not to be had. But the British asked...
...Nordhoff would drive their own cars off the export markets, they might never have given him the job. By last week, Volkswagen estimated it was the fourth biggest automaker in the world, led only by the U.S. Big Three. Even competitors conceded that Nordhoff was probably the best automan in Europe...
...railroad-equipment field, Automan Budd cannily foresaw the end of the postwar rush for long-haul passenger cars, developed the Railway Diesel Car for economical passenger service for shorter runs. Thus, when the railway car market virtually vanished this year, Budd's foresight paid off: out of 18 passenger car orders placed with U.S. car builders this year, 16 are for Budd's new "RDCs...
...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...