Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General William S. Knudsen is a happy man again. The Danish immigrant who rose to be production boss of General Motors but who, as half-boss of the ill-fated OPM, seemed to be a square head in a round hole, is working hard at a job he likes. He knows that what he does is worth while and is appreciated...
Lieut. General Knudsen started his tireless jaunt February i, three days after the President put him in uniform as director of Army Production. He has been to 350 plants in nearly a hundred cities and towns; he has flown 55,000 miles over the U.S.; he has talked to thousands of Americans about their work. In six swift months Knudsen has had an experience that would make any land-conscious American poet desperately envious. No poet of words, he is the kind of American who fingers shiny, greasy machines with a conscious, tactile pleasure-and because he loves machines they...
...trips have brought no revolutionary changes in production; but in an hour's visit he finds a dozen ways to save precious time and critical materials. Typical Knudsen touches...
...Southern shell plant had conveyor lines running lengthwise; when shells reached the end of one line they had to be carted by truck to the start of the next line. Knudsen revised the lines, made one start where the other ended. Said he: "Now throw your trucks out the window...
...also been-on his own hook and at risk of his job-the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave way to WPB; the expansionists...