Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Knudsen Northrop, 45, has designed such crack planes as the Lockheed Vega, the Army's A17, but it became evident last week that a big part of his heart and head was really in something very different. For, like most U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Northrop is an incurable visionary...
...Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced Naziism at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Cantor tripped over his hoopskirts, Swingstress Ella Logan swung Tipperary, Larry MacPhail bussed her, and Bill Robinson tap-danced in a gold-&-ermine suit on "Hitler's coffin." In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt sent over a plate of flapjacks...
...Bill Knudsen knew nothing about the Conservation Bureau until its organization was complete...
...long bout of Leon Henderson v. Bill Knudsen over control of automobile production, SPAB stepped in, stopped the fight, raised Leon's arm. Henceforth Henderson has full authority over quotas for automobiles and all other consumers' durable goods. This week he used his new powers to set the December quota at 204,848 passenger cars, 48.4% under December...
Unchanged was Sidney Hillman's labor responsibility. Submerged a little, but directed toward the job he is best at-production-was William S. Knudsen. The big red-faced Dane-born motormaker got a new assistant, who will take Biggers' job as actual production chief: William Henry Harrison, 48, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., a veteran construction supervisor, a big, hearty...