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...Board auspices for workers to choose their own unions. The Labor Board heard them with much sympathy. Only that morning Senator Wagner had appeared before a Senate Committee to advocate passage of his Labor Disputes Bill which would practically outlaw company unions (TiME, March 19). Next day William S. Knudsen. General Motors' executive vice president, and Abraham E. Barit. Hudson's executive vice president, appeared. Each offered a cold, formal statement and turned his back on the committee. Mr. Knudsen's statement: "In the fall of 1933. employe plans of representation were adopted in practically...
...General Motors which came out of Depression with 45% of U. S. automobile business is digging in to hold that gain and get more. The shakeups which took place in General Motors (TIME, Oct. 23) were evidence of the internal struggles of that company to improve its position. William Knudsen, new executive vice president in charge of operations, who previously was Chevrolet's big push, is now putting his shoulder to the whole company for a still bigger push. Ford also has changed its ways. Ford has lost ground in recent years because it persisted in making cars...
...Whatever the phrase "industrial democracy" may mean, it is the heart of the President's recovery program. As embodied in the NRA, "industrial democracy" no longer terrifies U. S. businessmen. General Johnson's bark has been found to be worse than his bite. Last week William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, was happy to say: "General Motors Corp., with the rest of the industry , supports our President's recovery program to the fullest extent. . . . This is final, official and without reservations...
Germany's Dr. H. O. Kneser has suggested that a large part of the absorption in air is due to collisions between oxygen molecules and water vapor molecules. Dr. Knudsen's experiments with air and its two major components, oxygen and nitrogen, weigh heavily in favor of this suggestion. There was no appreciable difference in the decay rates in moist nitrogen and dry nitrogen. But the decay rate in moist air was only one-fifth the rate in moist oxygen, and oxygen is one-fifth...
This new importance of humidity in acoustics led Dr. Knudsen to a new and important conclusion: "In large auditoriums, the reverberation of the high frequency [high-pitched] components of speech and music is affected more by the condition of the air in the room than it is by the nature of the materials which form the boundaries of the room...