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...managers who took Washington jobs in 1941 were for the most part business' trade-association and front men, not its technicians. (Mr. Knudsen was a technician, but he was given a policy job.) They gave freely and patriotically of their time and effort. The U.S. owed them its gratitude for making the necessary educational mistakes. In 1941 these mistakes cost merely time and reputations; in 1942 they will cost lives...
...time" to Vultee. He will devote his main efforts to the huge production problems involved in reorganizing and rationalizing the Vultee plant (a pioneer in developing aircraft assembly-line production) and that of Consolidated (which must share in the doubling of the bomber program announced by Bill Knudsen last fortnight...
Planes. The U.S. had planned to achieve an output of 543 heavy bombers a month by June 1943. Mr. Knudsen last week doubled this program...
Most lead mines, although Bill Knudsen two months ago asked them to lift output (TIME, Nov. 17), are still on a five-day week-and their output is running at least 20% below...
...weeks ago, SPAB voted to investigate and speed up the aluminum expansion which OPM announced last July, and for which all the contracts are not yet signed. OPM's William Knudsen conferred with Jesse Jones (whose lending powers make him a completely independent, one-man defense agency), reported simply that the expansion was moving as fast as possible. No further action was taken...