Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
Stone Wall. In turning down the C.I.O. steelworkers' demands for a third round of wage increases, the steelmakers had plenty of company. Last week several other major industries, including Chrysler, General Motors and General Electric, stood firm with the steelmen in refusing union third-round demands...
Though slowed, the third round was far from stopped. The C.I.O.'s auto workers last week voted to strike at Chrysler May 12 and started taking a strike vote at General Motors' plants. The United Electrical Workers were threatening to strike General Electric, Westinghouse, and G.M.'s electrical division. Three railroad brotherhoods had called a strike for May 11 against 132 major railroads. And John L. Lewis notified the mine owners that after June 30 (when their contracts expire and the union may legally strike), he wants something better. It looked as if the showdown...
...that Hughes put his stock into a trusteeship which Cohu could control. Hughes refused and there was nothing left for Cohu to do but get out. Cohu was reportedly set to take a top job with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Likeliest bet to succeed him in T.W.A. was Lieut. General Harold Lee George (ret.), who ran the ATC during the war, and until recently bossed Peruvian International Airways...