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Margaret E. Gilman, Boston, Mass., Fellow for Research in Painting and Secretary of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum...
Packard's tough, breezy President Max Gilman at once announced that, if his directors approved, Packard could and would do the job. He spoke of spending $30,000,000 at once for retooling, hiring 14,000 men, reaching a production of 840 engines a month within 15 months...
This week, Packard directors met to consider the deal. The meeting lasted all afternoon, while reporters waited. To them was handed a curt announcement: the Rolls-Royce project had been discussed, but "many matters require further study." Max Gilman apologized for a statement which "you [reporters] will probably think is a dud." It was by no means certain that the contract would be signed. Bill Knudsen's effort to get 9,000 Rolls-Royces seemed to carry a jinx...
...year has changed itself into a mass-production unit, is this year rolling 120,000 Sixes ($867 at Detroit) and Eights ($1,038) off its assembly lines. The man who led that invasion of the medium-priced automobile field was Macauley's successor, ex-Truck Salesman Max Gilman...
...green-eyed Max Gilman is now faced with a different transformation. One of the many questions that probably bothered the directors this week: can Packard tool itself up to the job in 15 months? On that point a top-flight U. S. aircraft production man commented: "Marvelous things can happen in a period like the present. You might almost say the impossible becomes possible...