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Classic example of a historic U. S. figure-the self-made man-is hulking, ruddy Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, whose big competent mechanic's hands work the president's controls of one of the half-dozen biggest U. S. corporations: General Motors Corp. Danish-born Bill Knudsen believes (with personal justification) that success's best recipe is competence and hard work, its most powerful attraction the prospect of good...
...Ponts-Henry B., Henry F., Lammot, Pierre-who dominate the board; 220,434 workers in no plants, 14 States (Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington), who earned $386,292,203 last year; grey-red, hulky President Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, who has earned $307,200 in a single year (1937); husky, handsome Max Raynes, 27, a Detroit buckaroo who spends his dough (wages last week: $40.79) on clothes and girls, gives his old father $5 a week; Floyd Forbus, 36, of Flint, who made $1,800 last year, $38 last...
...others: International Business Machines' Thomas Watson: $453,440. Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace: $378,698. American Tobacco's George Hill: $331,348. General Motors' William Knudsen: $303,400. Cinemactress Claudette Colbert: $301,944. Cinemactor Warner Baxter: $279,807. Producer Darryl Zanuck: $265,000. Radio's Bing Crosby: $260,000. Theatre Operator Spyros P. Skouras...
Down the list droned the clerk, paused at the last name and took a breath. Then, "Not guilty." Over Bill Knudsen's broad Danish face spread a grin. He turned and silently shook the hand of the man next to him. Then there was handshaking all around...
...ramrod-straight as the farmer-foreman handed up the verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine of $5,000 and a year in jail...