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...Show is a great fair, with sales the primary objective. About 5,000 people were connected with the exhibition, 1,500 alone running machines. The visitors were largely engineers and executives from industrial plants throughout the world who went to gape if not to buy. Even General Motors' Knudsen thought it worth his while to attend, and no less than 49 Russians turned up to purchase equipment for Soviet factories...
...front, "an increased facility of reproducing themselves was afforded to the weaklings." Thus the present generation of post-War youth is to be regarded generally askance, thinks Dr. Frick, and Nazi eugenists' plans for breeding Germans like prize cattle are especially vital. In prompt agreement, Dr. Knud A. Wieth-Knudsen, Norway's eugenist at the Congress, cried: "The intellectual currents which have dominated Scandinavian countries for the past 50 years?namely Liberalism, Radicalism and Feminism?are to blame for the decreasing birth rate in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Improvement can only be expected from new currents, such as the Nazi...
Most motorists know the names of the three men who rank just below Alfred P. Sloan in the management and operation of General Motors: William S. Knudsen, Donaldson Brown, Charles F. Kettering. Not so well known are the three topnotch assistants of Walter P. Chrysler: K. (for Kaufman) T. (for Thuma) Keller, Fred Morrell Zeder, B. Edwin Hutchinson. Engineer Keller was hired from General Motors by Walter Chrysler in 1926 to consolidate the manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when...
...Coyle surmounted his early production difficulties and again pushed Chevrolet to the front of the field is generally regarded as the outstanding selling job of 1934. Now 48, dynamic, little-publicized President Coyle has been with G. M. for 23 years, 17 of them in Chevrolet. William S. Knudsen picked him as his successor when that all-round motorman stepped up to executive vice president of General Motors Corp...
Sailing to attend the Paris Automobile Show, Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors Corp., who wonders why grass is green, predicted: "This country will never submit to regimentation and it will emerge from the Depression because it has too many Charles M. Schwabs...