Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generators and dynamotors for the Army and Navy during World War I. In 1919, he joined General Motors as sales manager and chief engineer of Remy Electric Co., a G.M. subsidiary, within nine years was a G.M. vice president. He became right-hand man to G.M. President William S. Knudsen, succeeded him in 1941 after Big Bill went to Washington as top defense expediter. Wilson's salary and bonus in 1951 (before taxes): $566,200. His future salary as Secretary of Defense...
White-haired, Brooklyn-born Bill Harrison, who worked his way up from a $6-a-week A.T. & T. repairman to engineering vice president of the company in 1936, has unraveled crossed wires in Washington before. In 1940 Defense Production Boss Bill Knudsen, looking for a man to boss construction, called up A.T. & T.'s President Walter Gifford. He was not in, so the operator switched the call to Harrison, who offered to go to Washington to discuss the problem. He wound up taking the job himself. Soon he was production chief of the War Production Board, later served...
Detroit's Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra actually goes back some 20 years. Early in its history the late motor magnate William S. Knudsen, who liked to relax with his Scandinavian friends, gave them a bass viol. The orchestra had no musician to play it, but that was fixed in a hurry. Violinist Chris Marck was tapped because he had a car large enough to carry a bass viol...