Word: knudsens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...soldiers. But the top leadership of the Army was still largely Regular. Out of 1,300 general officers in the Army today, only 25 are Reservists (e.g., Lieut. General James Doolittle, boss of the Eighth Air Force); only 14 were drawn direct from civilian life (e.g., Lieut. General William Knudsen, boss of Army Air Forces Technical Service...
That explosion virtually swept all possible Grumman competitors into the background. The reasons were simple. While other planemakers argued with the Navy over design changes, Grumman went to Big Bill Knudsen, then froze Grumman designs. Instead of waiting for new plants to be ready, Grumman spread-eagled work in garages, a shooting gallery, almost any available space around Bethpage, even assembled planes under tents. As a result, Grumman proved he could get out planes when the Navy had to have them...
...this matter has been uncertain and vacillating. This latest dissension, moreover, raises once more much wider questions about the President's administrative policies. It is, after all, merely the latest of a long series of such disagreements-between General Short and Admiral Kimmel, Mr. Hillman and Mr. Knudsen, Mr. Ickes and Mr. Henderson, Mr. Eberstadt and Mr. Wilson, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Jeffers and Elmer Davis, Mr. Byrnes and the War Labor Board, Mr. Ickes and the War Labor Board, Chester Davis and Mr. Vinson, and, most notorious of all, between Vice President Wallace and Secretary Jones...
Named as a Knudsen deputy was Brigadier General Kenneth B. Wolfe, from the Twentieth A.A.F., whose 6-29 Superfortresses opened a new air front against Japan in June. Appointment of K.B. Wolfe underlined a Knudsen pronouncement: A.A.F. production will henceforth be mostly concentrated on larger planes...