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...stage of deciding who was to do what and why and for how much; a period of telling people please-to-be-patient, of red tape and of asking softly for cooperation; 2) tooling up, a mechanic's phrase used by defense's master mechanic, William S. Knudsen-a period of the drawing board and the lathe, of designing and building tools to make things with, a time of blueprints and bricks-without-mortar, of labor-training schools, of raw materials and schedules; a time of hurry, nerves, urgency, short cuts and of sharp demands for cooperation...
...civil war has raged with indescribable bitterness, but always under cover. None could afford to break through the patriotic unity that William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman maintained in all sincerity. But in the strata below Knudsen and Hillman, the subterranean fires raged...
Pointing to "the studied informality of [his] clothes," the Merchant Tailors and Designers Association of America nominated shambling, walrusy Big Bill Knudsen, who likes stripes, to their honor roll of 1941's best-dressed citizens...
...confidential" letter (TIME, Jan. 27) which in effect requested that publishers print no significant Navy news unless it was issued or approved by the Navy. Love feast rather than war council, the meeting consisted of polite queries from publishers, urbane answers from the Secretary of the Navy and William Knudsen, blandly disavowing any intent to enforce "a rigid news censorship...
...Washington, $1-a-year men set a stiff pace for Government men: William Clayton put in 60 hours, W. Averell Harriman, John Biggers and Bill Knudsen around 80 hours in a six-day week. RFC's lights burned nightly...