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This week the General got a shove. The Hoover Commission, which has been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than...
...that: "Perhaps the American public hasn't learned to appreciate the German school of conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good shake-up and house cleaning is just what the Detroit Symphony needs. Troublemakers had better resign now before I fire them...
...weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest shake of all was given Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, 55, the slight, reserved general manager of the Buick Motor division. He was moved up to the newly created job of G.M. executive vice president in charge of all nonproduction activities except finance (labor relations, public relations, etc.) The promotion...
...shake-up was Charlie Wilson's way of moving a new and younger production team into G.M.'s top spots to give G.M. new teeth for the coming dog-eat-dog competition in the automobile business. Furthermore, the team will be ready to take over completely when some of the older top executives, now close to the compulsory retirement age,* step down. (The gossip was that two or three of them would retire shortly...
...courage for a new hairdo, Collier's looked in the mirror-and decided to make some changes. The new Look and the Saturday Evening Post, smartened up by Editor Ben Hibbs, were proving far too attractive for Collier's comfort. This week, following an editorial shake-up (TIME, June 7), Collier's underwent a face-lifting and put on a new dress...