Word: rausch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bennett. Henry Ford kept mum on who will replace Sorensen. Likeliest prospect: plumpish, soft-speaking Ray R. Rausch, 49, Ford director, production boss of the Rouge, and favorite of Harry Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...
...Plumpish, diplomatic Ray R. Rausch, 49, most affable, best-liked of all top Ford men, now boss of the sprawling Rouge plant. Rausch came to Ford from Timken-Detroit Axle Co. in 1921, to run engineering, tool design and construction, later headed the important salvage department, was elevated to Rouge boss in 1933. A quick and practical improviser, Rausch often steps out of Rouge to solve problems in other parts of the empire. As a production man, he is second only to tall, handsome Charles E. Sorensen. When a shortage of fabricated steel threatened to halt Willow Run construction, Rausch...
...already great influence of Bennett. Lessened was the influence of Sorensen, long nourished by the late Edsel Ford. Sorensen is still a director, still vice president in charge of production. Sorensen has had the only production seat on the board. Now he must share that chair with Rausch, close friend of Bennett. After the first board meeting came the first short but significant straw. Razzle-dazzler Steve Hannagan, whose hiring as press agent a year ago was approved by Sorensen, but never by Bennett, was fired forthwith...
...Emil J. Rausch of the Arizona State Department of Health last month started a campaign to revive a pre-World War I product of the German colonies in Africa: dried banana loaves. The fully ripened bananas are dried on the plantation, pressed into 100-lb. blocks to be shipped in bulk with a 90% saving in load space, no loss by spoilage...
CORPORAL RICHARD C. RAUSCH...