Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved up to OPM's production chief...
...mere throne-warmer. Kanzler started off as a Detroit lawyer in 1915, moved into the Ford orbit a year later when he and Edsel Ford courted (and later married) sisters. With ack-ack rapidity, Kanzler became Ford Motor Co. production manager, then director, then vice president. From Big Bill Knudsen (who then worked for Ford), he picked up production dope never taught in a law school. But Kanzler was always a lawyer, never a down-in-the-shop production man. So in 1926 he became executive vice president of Ford-controlled Guardian Detroit Bank; two years later he organized Universal...
...Business is not showing the willingness to cooperate and sacrifice that is being asked of all U. S. citizens and youthful ones in particular. The victory production appropriation of $170,000,000 asked for in October was effectively curtailed at that time by Knudsen and the "business as usual" bloc in Washington. Fearing the great disturbance such a tremendous production program would cause in industry's life made the managers wish to dodge Uncle Sam's pointed finger. Despite Pearl Harbor's supposed unifying effect many of the most vital industries are not producing up to capacity. The machine tool...
Next day the President gave big sporting Bill Knudsen another job, made him a lieutenant general in the Army* in charge of Army production (a salary rise from nothing-a-year to $9,872)-a post in which Production Man Knudsen may come into...
...first civilian in U.S. history to be appointed to such rank without military experience, Knudsen will be one of only nine lieutenant generals now in the Army...