Word: poules
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first...
Sailing to attend the Paris Automobile Show, Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors Corp., who wonders why grass is green, predicted: "This country will never submit to regimentation and it will emerge from the Depression because it has too many Charles M. Schwabs...
Last week the following were news: Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, 54, head of General Motors' Chevrolet division, was made executive vice president in charge of all GM's manufacturing operations in the U. S. and Canada. A Dane from Copenhagen, he emigrated to the U. S. at 21, got a job in a shipyard, worked for Erie R. R., then shot up as an assembly man for Henry Ford. Quitting as manager of all Ford plants in 1921, he soon joined Chevrolet. A tall, slightly stooped man with a big walrus mustache, Motorman Knudsen is a genius...
...Thorshavn, chief Faroe village, Poul Petubson, Faroe delegate to the Danish Parliament, called an indignation meeting. Later a crowd of inflamed cod fishermen with Delegate Petubson at their head swept through the streets to the Lagting (local parliament) building, brushed aside Thorshavn's lone policeman, hauled down the Danish flag, a white cross on a red field, and hoisted the Faroes' banner?a blue-trimmed red cross on a white field...