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...gone to town. Although neither the amicable Pearson nor the pugnacious Allen has much of a voice, they have made their new show as lively as their news copy, have persuaded many a bigwig to appear with them on the air. Among their famous foils to date: William S. Knudsen, Mrs. Roosevelt, Robert Jackson, Lord Lothian, and last week famed French Commentator Pertinax (Andre Géraud), who described the reasons behind the collapse of France in his first public pronouncement since he arrived in the U. S. in July...
...fine test of Pearson & Allen's persuasive powers was getting Defense Commissioner Knudsen to join them on the air a few weeks back. Interviewing Knudsen, Pearson & Allen found him willing. But the National Defense Advisory Commission insisted that no one member of the Commission should make his views known before a joint report had been issued. Forthwith Pearson & Allen pulled potent strings, presently from the White House came word that Knudsen was free to face a mike...
...would fare when they met Government red tape. The Army's Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, no novice in Government business, has said that "to cut red tape you've got to be deadly accurate, or run into a demoralizing snarl." But fortnight ago big William Knudsen showed surprise when newsmen asked him about red tape's interference with NDAC's work (TIME, Aug. 5). Replied he: "I do not recognize any. People might have thought we had red tape at General Motors because we did things in a definite way. Here too, there...
...aviation industry to start spending money without any guarantee that they were ever going to get it back. Six key points of U. S. defense are Curtiss-Wright, Lockheed, Douglas, Consolidated, North American and Glenn L. Martin. Representatives of these six met in Washington with big Bill Knudsen of NDAC, went away with a businessman's agreement that what they probably would get in time from the Government was: 1) estimated cost plus 7% on their contracts; 2) the right to charge off (amortize) plant expansion investment within five years...
...manufacturer who had gone ahead building without contracts, hoping for the best. At Inglewood, Calif., production-wise President James Howard Kindelberger of North American Aviation has been turning out advanced training planes, stacking them on the shelf, for delivery. Boss of a company that is 29.1% owned by Bill Knudsen's General Motors Corp., "Dutch" Kindelberger was banking on promises and the urgent necessity of emergency armament. In producing the planes that the services will need first and most in 1941, he was away out in front...