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After two years as a lieutenant general and production director for the War Department, big, grey William Signius Knudsen finally got an Army command. His new job: chief of the Army Air Forces' new combined service and materiel command, with headquarters at Patterson Field, Ohio. Production-wise General Knudsen, who started his Army career with three stars on his shoulder, will be in charge of A.A.F. research, design and procurement, supply and maintenance...
...months ended March 31, has $6,862,156 tucked away to build postwar autos. Most important, the jeep designed by Willys and Army Ordnance (TIME, Nov. 3, 1941) has sold itself to the world. No one doubted that Charlie Sorensen intends to duplicate the feat of Big Bill Knudsen who was squeezed out of Ford in 1921. Knudsen went to General Motors, and by booming Chevrolet sales, stole such a vast chunk of the small-car market from Ford that the old man has never regained his supremacy...
That was what Big Bill Knudsen said in 1938. He and most other businessmen were outraged because an employer, if he so much as remarked that he did not like unions, could promptly be hauled before the National Labor Relations Board and charged with unfair labor practices. But unions could say anything they felt about management, short of libel...
...squabbled with William S. Knudsen, took the quarrel to Ford for a decision. He won, but Knudsen left Ford shortly after for General Motors, where he took pleasant revenge by boosting Chevrolet sales past Ford...
During the absence of Lt. Comdr. Carl Knudsen, USNR (Ch. C), who is confined to Chelsea Naval Hospital, a group of local clergymen will take over his duties as Chaplain for the Navy Training Schools and V-12. They will be in Phillips Brooks House on the third floor from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock on the days mentioned below. January 24, Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton, Baptist; January 25, Rev. Frederick B. Kellogg, Episcopalian; January 26, Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Presbyterian; January 27, Rev. Leonard G. Clough, Congregational; January 28, Rev. D. J. Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic; January...