Word: knowlson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furnace can be used as a space heater, embedded in a wall between two rooms to heat both, or stuck on a closet shelf to heat two or more rooms through short ducts. Two such units, said Stewart-Warner President James S. Knowlson, can heat the average six-room house, can be installed by one man. Cost: $200 a heater...
...Detail-ridden Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production Board, gave trusted Deputy James S. Knowlson full power over priorities, turned WPB's machine-tool branch into a full-fledged division...
...another vice chairman and his deputy on the combined production and resources board, Nelson picked slim, ruddy-faced, grey-haired James S. Knowlson, former director of WPB's industry operations, an oldtime friend from Chicago. President of Stewart-Warner Corp., Knowlson became Nelson's deputy director of priorities in September 1941. On his first day he told staff members: "If there's any guy who doesn't think we can deliver this program in 1942, he had better get his time check, turn in his tools and get the hell out of here, quick...
...putting into operation Knowlson's program governing the flow of materials was handed to handsome, athletic, 42-year-old Amory Houghton III, board chairman of Corning Glass Works. Houghton, of the fourth generation of glassmaking Houghtons, joined the firm as a glass blower on his graduation from Harvard in 1921. He rose quickly...
...Knowlson, chief of its Division of Industry Operations, announced the creation of 13 regional of-fices,* gave them broad powers as "the focal point ... for all War Production Board business" except for overall policy matters. In each of their areas, these miniature Don Nelsons (seven have been appointed so far) are to have complete WPB authority over what remains of the war-production job. Since most of the expansion was over, rationalization could begin-a grass-roots matter. There could be more subcontracting, a fuller use of existing plants, more local cooperation, less Washington red tape. A blueprint...