Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent dignified Lieut. General William S. Knudsen, ex-General Motorsman, to head an investigation of its own. Knudsen findings...
Truman rebuttal: "This conclusion is wishful thinking . . . tendency to minimize. [Knudsen's] report assumes an unnecessarily defensive attitude. [Its] inspection was made after the most flagrant derelictions had been called to the attention of the Wright Aeronautical Corp...
Married. Martha Knudsen, 23, youngest of Lieut. General William S. Knudsen's three daughters; and Air Forces Lieut. Paul Milton McKenney, 25, of Detroit; in Detroit...
...Ranking non-pro: onetime General Motors Executive Vice President Wiliam S. Knudsen, now a lieutenant general. Other high-ranking emergency combat officers: Major General James Doolittle, Brigadier Generals Theodore Roosevelt and Hanford MacNider...
Last week Detroit and the Automotive Council celebrated the second anniversary of cooperation for war production. It was a far cry from the day, two years ago, when William S. Knudsen, as National Defense Advisory Commission head, begged his fellow automakers to take on $500,000,000 (25%) of the nation's first big bomber program. When Big Bill (now Lieut. General) Knudsen got to Detroit again last week, it was hammering away at a $15 billion backlog, had pushed its war production rate to $6 billion a year, 70% above its peacetime peak...