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...Reuther? Walter Reuther is no Ford, no Knudsen. Neither is he an ignoramus about the automobile industry. A skilled tool-&-die maker for 13 years. he was once good enough to be foreman of a Ford tool-&-die shop. Meantime he studied economics in a university night school, later taught toolmaking in Russia. China, Japan, now knows the automobile industry union-side...
...hinted that he would like the job; but he was not asked. Across London's area of rumor, a whole parade of names passed-familiar names, unfamiliar names, here a man who knew Britain's needs intimately, there one who could talk slices of turkey with Mr. Knudsen...
...defense jobs face U. S. civilians: 1) production of arms, 2) production of trained men to make and service those arms. Last fortnight Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen told industrialists that the first job was lagging. Last week U. S. vocational teachers, gathered at a convention of the American Vocational Association in San Francisco, heard that the second job was going better...
...Knudsen represented the fact that a large segment of Business itself cooperated with the 1940 Revolution. To the other, perhaps larger, segment, he was the Revolution's most convincing legate. He spoke to them as one production man to another. He also spoke to them as Government to Business...
...reacted patriotically but with caution. The Nye Committee was too fresh in their memo ries to give them any stomach for the munitions-makers role. The result was an apparent lack of ardor in the way industry went after war business. But with that coolheaded attitude, coolheaded William S. Knudsen was equipped to deal...