Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Reuther's plan was on a braver, broader scale than Mr. Knudsen's proposal to put the industry's mass-production brains on the job of making aircraft parts, on the grounds that its actual machinery and assembly lines are no good for making airplanes. Broader too was his assertion, backed up by extensive arithmetic, that the industry already has enough idle men, machines and floor space to turn out 500 fighters a day within six months...
William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...
...Used cars!," squawked Mr. Reuther...
...Walter Reuther did not take the angry compliment as an offer, stayed with his union. Now he directs its activities in General Motors plants. Last fortnight he bounced into Washington with an idea for sale-free. He wanted to give it away to Defense Commissioner Knudsen, President Roosevelt, anybody else who would use it. His idea: let the U. S. Government take the automobile industry in hand, mobilize its vast capacity for aircraft manufacture...
When Henry Ford talked about "1,000 planes a day" last spring, the U. S. quivered to attention. Mr. Ford now hopes to have a new aircraft engine factory ready by next fall, produce 4,500 engines by mid-1942. If Mr. Reuther had his way, Ford Motor Co. would probably not be building a new plant. Instead Ford would be turning unused space, men, machines in his own and other manufacturers' plants to aircraft production. So would all the other automakers, to manufacture aircraft and engine parts for which their facilities were best fitted. Everybody would...