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...Labor, Hillman knew how to talk Labor's language to workers. He enlisted fellow Commissioner William Knudsen and Knudsen's staff of industrialists to talk their own language to Management. Shrewd, tactful, he squeezed from both ends...
...explanation of the drop in exports was advanced last month by Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen: airplane manufacturers had to concentrate on expanding their capacity for future production, temporarily neglect current output. Manufacturers did in fact have their hands full building, staffing and tooling new plants. But Bill Knudsen by last week had decided that the present aircraft industry could not supply the entire future demand. For help, he had gone to his own automobile industry...
General Motors' Knudsen did not expect automakers to turn their present specialized machines and assembly lines to the manufacture of airplanes. He did expect that the automobile industry could turn loose its mass-production brains on the manufacture of airplane parts and engines, in new factories to be built and tooled for this specific job. To build, tool and man the new plants, actually get into quantity production, will take at least a year, perhaps 18 months...
...abruptly he talked himself out in June, when he refused to accept the Rolls-Royce engine contract which Packard later took. What brought him back was the tremendous pressure on Pratt & Whitney to up its capacity, plus P. & W. executives' respect for the Ford organization, plus Bill Knudsen's quiet insistence that Ford Motor Co. had to find a place in U. S. defense...
Back in Detroit for a long weekend holiday, National Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen and his wife called in 29 friends to celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary, the 21st birthday of youngest daughter Martha ("Girlie") Knudsen...