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...William S. Knudsen (General Motors), $372,366. (Mr. Knudsen's next full-year pay, from OPM, will...
...flooded Norway, the Norwegian Legation in Washington is not submerged. In fact, the Legation is such a busy little island that last week it dedicated a new wing. On the Legation roof, while such distinguished guests as Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, OPM's Big Bill Knudsen, A.F. of L.'s Little Bill Green looked on, Crown Princess Martha raised a Norwegian flag, in a rich, clear soprano led the guests as they sang Norway's National Anthem...
William S. Knudsen got back to automaking when a jalopy whacked the back side of his limousine at a railroad crossing outside Los Angeles. After 15 minutes of his expert repair work the other car limped off under its own power. Eleanor Roosevelt took a wrong turn in Bangor, Me., drove 88 unfamiliar miles out of her way, turned up at a dinner party just in time for dessert. Comedian Joe Cook sold his fabulous Sleepless Hollow, trick estate at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., complete with squirting telephones, rubber-legged chairs, golf-ball tree, a nine-hole golf course which...
...long-smoldering feud between Bill Knudsen's OPM and Leon Henderson's OPACS finally exploded last week-right under the nation's automobile manufacturers. The explosion was an order issued by Henderson: the industry would have to cut automobile and light truck production 50%, to about 2,400,000 units in the new model year. It could make 600,000 units a month in August, September and October. After that the limit was 200,000 a month. Only assembly lines for heavy trucks badly needed for transportation and Army could keep going top speed (600,000 last...
...evident that Henderson wanted a showdown with OPM over who was really boss of civilian supply. Henderson thinks that he is, and that OPM is trying to muscle in. OPM, whose priorities powers are the No. 1 weapon for regulating distribution, thinks that he is merely its adviser. After Knudsen told motor-makers early this month that materials shortages would cut heavily into their 1942 production (TIME, July 14), OPM and its automobile industry committee sat down to work out details of the reduction themselves. They and the industry expected the cut would amount to at least 50% but they...