Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists attacked him. When he presided with Automaker William Knudsen over U.S. war industry, as associate director of 0PM, the Reds railed: "What is Mr. Hillman's little game now? He has cooperated shamelessly with Big Business. . . . He is an enemy of the working class...
Nobody thinks that the present design of planes is definitive. One who has revolutionary ideas about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: he believes that conventional airplanes will eventually be replaced by tailless flying wings. This week in Hawthorne, Calif. Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from...
When OPM was set up, William Knudsen grabbed Cap Krug. When OPM became WPB he went along. He received a Naval commission in 1944, was sent to Normandy, then Italy, but was hauled home to replace Donald Nelson as chief...
Many crack officers would be gone by year's end. Soon to go was energetic, ambitious, 53-year-old Brehon B. Somervell, who as chief of the Army Service Forces ran history's greatest supply job. Already back in civilian life was Lieut. General William Knudsen, the War Department's tireless coordinator and trouble shooter on war industry's production line...
...guiding it back to peace. In the U.A.W. strike against G.M., it is Charlie Wilson who will sit down and face the union across the bargaining table. Sloan has never done the actual bargaining with the U.A.W. An engineer by training, C.E. stepped into Big Bill Knudsen's place when Knudsen went off to war, soon showed himself a tough, quick-witted bargainer, and superlative production man as well...