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Roosevelt is wholly emotional and not in the least rational." Tony Galento: "Roosevelt will beat this Willkie just as bad as I'll beat Joe Louis the next time I catch up with the bum." William S. Knudsen (when asked whom he would vote for): "Go jump in the lake." Edna St. Vincent Millay (in an anti-Roosevelt "poem...
...enterprise are inseparable, had nevertheless believed (as the London Economist said) that "it is far more important at this stage of history to prove that democracy and communal enterprise are compatible." He foresaw ahead of the U. S. a period wherein civilian needs must come second (already Defense Commissioner Knudsen had warned auto makers they might have no new machine tools in 1941); a period when labor must be mobilized, when plant capacity and raw materials must be rationed according to national needs...
...power. But last week it watched another feather sewn to the full war regalia it may some day don. Franklin Roosevelt appointed a new four-man priorities board. Administrator was Donald Marr Nelson, the Defense Commission's (formerly Sears, Roebuck's) purchasing agent. Chairman was Commissioner Knudsen, its member commissioners Stettinius, Henderson. Purpose of the board was to work out a priorities system. In some industries-notably among the more defenseless customers of copper- priorities were already needed to determine who gets what. And besides, if logjammed suppliers are told they must make defense deliveries first, stall...
When U. S. defense preparations began last summer, the aircraft industry jumped almost directly from swaddling clothes into ill-fitting long pants, quivered before the big bad wolf of mass production. Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen was patient. As aircraft manufacturers hacked away by hand at their $2,500,000,000-plus backlog, he quickly allayed the fear that their industry would be moved to Detroit, but at the same time he made eyes at his mass-producing auto friends (TIME, Oct. 7). Neither planemakers nor automen enjoyed this coquetry...
Last week big Bill Knudsen spoke. To 69 automotive bigwigs gathered in Detroit he outlined the part they were to play. Franklin Roosevelt had just decided to add 12,000 new bombers to the air expansion program-for parts of which automen would receive $500,000,000 in orders by next spring. With him Commissioner Knudsen had brought blueprints to help them retool their plants, prepare to mass-produce wing, fuselage and tail assemblages. If they could handle the job, said Mr. Knudsen, automakers would get one quarter of the entire rearmament fund alloted to aircraft...