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When Henry Ford II recently took his company's new president, ex-General Motorsman Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, on an inspection tour of European operations, the worst was saved for last. Landing at Cologne, Ford and Knudsen needed only to look out the window of their private plane to see lots filled with Ford-made cars-part of the 45,000 that presently account for 56% of all West Germany's unsold autos. Ford sales for last January were off 35% and production schedules have been cut by one-third. Finally, arriving at the company's Cologne headquarters...
...that racing cost him $450,000 to operate last year, Willie could afford to ask, and did: "So what?" Yet he never bets more than a piddling amount on a race. Not that he isn't a gambler. When he bought $125,000 worth of horses from General Motorsman Henry Knight this year, he offered to flip a coin, double or nothing. Knight hesitated for a moment, then settled for a straight sale...
...sent dignified Lieut. General William S. Knudsen, ex-General Motorsman, to head an investigation of its own. Knudsen findings...
Tough, pink-cheeked Charles Erwin Wilson, 50, new president of General Motors, went skating at his country home in Oakland County, Mich., fell and broke his hip. Muttered Motorsman Wilson, preparing to do business for a while from his hospital bed: "It was just one of those skating accidents. I slipped...
...ahead and name the others. Mr. Bragg named John Jacob Raskob. chairman of the Democratic National Committee ; William F. Kenny, contractor friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; William Crapo Durant, onetime president of General Motors Corp.; General Motorsman Frederic John Fisher, and Michael J. Meehan, theatre ticket seller who rose to Wall Street power by riding Radio from $25 a share...
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