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...badgered by nervous mothers, harassed by peremptory fathers ("Pay attention to me, young man. My boy must be senior patrol leader of your troop! That's my last word"). He was the victim of strange rumors ("The scoutmaster handled our financial campaign very well. He got a new Buick out of it"), was accused of being a Communist (he had taught the boys to sing a college song, Sons of the Stanford...
Defense Experience: In World War II, Wilson converted his industrial giant (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Frigidaire, diesel engines, AC Spark Plug, Hyatt Bearings and 23 other divisions) to war production. G.M. made nearly one-fourth of all the tanks, armored cars and airplane engines produced in the U.S. during World War II, almost half of all the machine guns and carbines, two-thirds of all the large trucks. At war's end, Wilson reconverted G.M. to peacetime production at top speed and partially converted to defense production when the Korean war broke out. Today, Wilson...
Four years later, in 1933, he got the tough job of curing the sick Buick division. Buick had been plagued by a series of poor-selling cars (the "pregnant Buick"); its sales had dropped 85%. With his knowledge of design and sales, Curtice put out a new series that caught on immediately, doubled Buick's sales in one year...
...Buick's production had quadrupled. From the Depression low of 41,000 units, Buick hit a prewar high of 377,000, fourth place in the entire industry, right behind lower-priced Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. When he left Buick to become G.M.'s executive vice president, Red Curtice took over design, public relations, distribution, engineering, research, personnel, employee relations, procurement and real estate for the entire corporation...
...Rome, Cinemactress Anna (Open City) Magnani went to court to explain why she had not paid the Italian custom duties on a 1948 Buick which she has been driving for three years. She bought the car, Anna said, thinking everything was in legal order, but "I was swindled...