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...judgment not only of the magnitude of the emergency but of the insufficiency of present preparations. The President. William S. Knudsen, John D. Diggers, Donald Nelson of 0PM all cried that not enough was being done, that more and more and more had to be done...
...light of the emergency with which the world is desperately confronted, we are doing a terribly inadequate job. We should be producing twice the 1,400 airplanes that were produced in April. So said Industrialist William L. Batt, now one of William S. Knudsen's deputies...
...book contains something more than a wealth of anecdotes about W. C. Durant, William Knudsen, Henry Ford, the Dodge Brothers, the Fisher Brothers, many another automotive bigshot-something not generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which...
...Harvard alumni will gather tomorrow in Baltimore for a three-day discussion of production and defense problems brightened by a show of crew races and dress parades. At the head of the list of speakers representing the interests of American business and defense projects will be William S. Knudsen, director of the Office of Production Management...
...have been working overtime: an average of 12½ hours a week. Since no employer would pay out that much overtime if he could help it, this was a sure sign that the long-expected labor bottleneck was now a potent fact. Immediately after the President's statement, Knudsen-Hillman asked industry workmen to substitute bonuses for vacations in defense plants this summer. Draft headquarters disclosed that the classification of skilled workmen would be re-examined and that some men already in the Army might be transferred to factories...