Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AUTOMAKER KNUDSEN...
...enduring mysteries of U.S. business is how a product can suddenly catch fire with consumers or, at times, just as suddenly lose favor. Nearly 30 years ago, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, a Danish immigrant bicyclemaker turned automan, was the one who lit the fuse under Chevrolet and sent it out ahead of Ford as the most popular U.S. car. His reward was the presidency of General Motors. Three years ago, Big Bill Knudsen's son, Semon Emil Knudsen, took on a similar job: he was made boss of G.M.'s sputtering Pontiac division, thus became...
...Christmas this year, Lockheed and most other planemakers, Continental Oil Co.. Diamond Alkali are mailing letters wishing one and all a very merry holiday, but please do not send any gifts to our employees. Boeing Airplane, U.S. Steel, California Packing, Cutter Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift...
Despite 32 years of service with G.M., Donner is a man almost no one knows. He has made neither speeches nor cars. All he knows about the corporation-and it is a great deal-he learned not in the shops, like Curtice, Wilson, William S. Knudsen and Sloan, but from executive meetings, balance sheets and reports...
Died. Ann Daly Morrison, 72, wife of world-girdling Morrison-Knudsen (construction) Co.'s Chairman Harry Winford Morrison (TIME, May 3, 1954), known to many as the "First Lady of Construction" because since their marriage in 1914 she had traveled the world with him; of a circulatory ailment; in Boise, Idaho...