Word: productionman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tipoff: G.M. is going to war. Dick Grant was Productionman Bill Knudsen's opposite (sales) number at Chevrolet in the twenties, when G.M. revolutionized the motor industry by using sales forecasts to schedule production rather than vice versa. Such a man, while serving G.M.'s wartime interests, can also serve the U.S.'s by speeding up procedure. With orders like the $5 billions announced this week (see p. 61) pouring into Detroit, it will take a quick and skilful hand just to hold the funnel...
...steel's most spectacular moneymaker was cigar-chewing Ernest Weir, whose modern mills put competition back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money...
...interests) and Paul Fleischmann. Last week Standard Brands had other changes to announce. To President Thomas L. Smith, onetime Standard Brands wagon man, had gone the duties of chief executive officer, taken from Board Chairman (and fellow wagon man) Joseph Wilshire. To vice-presidencies had gone two other veterans: Productionman John W. Luce, and Cousin (also Chicago manager) Albert R. Fleischmann...
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