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Besides Chairman Wallace, the SPABoard consists of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson; Navy Secretary Frank Knox; William S. Knudsen, OPM's Director-General; Sidney Hillman, labor's man; Harry L. Hopkins, Lend-Lease Administrator, Defense-Aid director; and Leon Henderson in charge of Civilian Supply...
Unchanged was Sidney Hillman's labor responsibility. Submerged a little, but directed toward the job he is best at-production-was William S. Knudsen. The big red-faced Dane-born motormaker got a new assistant, who will take Biggers' job as actual production chief: William Henry Harrison, 48, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., a veteran construction supervisor, a big, hearty...
...been sold down the river I haven't been sold down very far," Byrd answered, expropriating a quip from the Baltimore Sun. His information, some of it admittedly two months old, came from Big Bill Knudsen of OPM, from Admiral Jerry Land at the Maritime Commission, from the Chief of Staff and from the Secretary of the Navy...
...windowed OPM boardroom one day last week, 18 automakers sat and held their breath. Ex-automaker Bill Knudsen had just told them they had to cut their production by an average 26½% for the first four months of the 1942 car year, 50% for the full year (to 2,150,000 units...
...case, the motormakers knew where they stood. They were no longer in the middle of the OPM-OPACS feud over whether a 20% or 50% cut was called for; time had proved OPACS right, and Henderson and Knudsen spoke alike at last week's meeting. Jim Adams' passenger car quotas were precise to the smallest manufacturer. For the four months ending Nov. 30, they were...