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...Question: Why not simply put more factories to work on Defense production? Knudsen: "You make me think of a little story. It was at the National Cash Register Co. when some improvement . . . was not coming fast enough to suit the president. 'Why don't you have twice as many scientists at work on the problem?' he demanded. 'You can't get anywhere by having two hens sitting on the same egg,' said the production manager...
...Great Britain's Lord Beaverbrook and U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau were, Mr. Knudsen indicated, talking through their hats last week when they proclaimed that Great Britain can begin getting 3,000 U. S. planes per month by early 1941. By financing 38 additional factories in the U. S., the British may be able to get 3,000 per month by mid-1942. (Last week the British reported that they had ordered 11,000 U. S. planes, got delivery of 2,800 since late...
...Question: "Instead of waiting for the airplane builders to expand their facilities, why ries?" don't you Knudsen: use "We the would gain automobile facto nothing but floor space. [Automobiles have] wholly different engines, of different size, of different tooling. The buildings alone would...
...Could he get more done if he had more authority? Knudsen: "I don't want any more...
...tape interfered? . . ." Knudsen: "I do not recognize any. People might have thought we had red tape in General Motors, because we did things in a definite way. Here, too, there are certain definite ways to proceed. I propose to proceed by those ways just as long as I can get results by them...