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...Loyal Big Bill Knudsen, who was content to be a good soldier no matter how badly things went; who never reached out for power he needed if his chief was unwilling to give it; who inspired such loyalty that any reshuffle that did not leave him out would have to leave...
Like an unexpected break in a Shostakovich symphony, the grinding cacophony of production in the great Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant near the Buffalo airport clattered to a deep, silent stop one day last week. For an hour the production line stood still while Big Bill Knudsen and other national defense bigwigs dedicated a low-lying, businesslike monument to U.S. ingenuity and industrial speed...
...symphony again as it does through the 24 hours of the day. Within a few months, 12,500 men will be working in the new plant and 500 of this year's fighters will be coming off the line every month: one of the reasons why Bill Knudsen was able to promise in Buffalo that last July's U.S. production of 1,460 would be raised to 3,000 a month by next summer...
Like a cry for help and its echo from a chasm were statements of the two top U.S. defense officials last week. OPM's William Knudsen in Manhattan said that present defense output of $9 billions annually must be increased to at least $20 billions by next summer. OPACS' Leon Henderson in Washington gloomed, "Soon there will be 2,000,000 more unemployed...
...more powerful leadership has not come up to direct U.S. war efforts more effectively. Part of the difficulty is that the dollar-a-year managers do not exercise the authority necessary to do a satisfactory job of management. Says FORTUNE: "More power-much more power-could have been Mr. Knudsen's for the taking. . . . Probably the second most powerful figure in Washington is Jesse Jones-not because President Roosevelt feels particularly warm towards him ... but because Mr. Jones fell on a ball." Effective management is also lacking because throughout the U.S. there are the men who can make...