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Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
After two years as a lieutenant general and production director for the War Department, big, grey William Signius Knudsen finally got an Army command. His new job: chief of the Army Air Forces' new combined service and materiel command, with headquarters at Patterson Field, Ohio. Production-wise General Knudsen, who started his Army career with three stars on his shoulder, will be in charge of A.A.F. research, design and procurement, supply and maintenance...
Defense Commissioner Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen held a press conference in Washington last week. He blushed. He dazed 30-odd reporters by calling them "Sir" and "Madam." At ease, his huge body hunched comfortably in his chair, he handled himself as adroitly as Franklin Roosevelt at his best. He also gave the best report to date on the state and prospects of production for U. S. Defense. Knudsen's prime points...
...above). To help him in that job, he chose six men and a woman teacher whose backgrounds are as varied as their task is huge. To a business-conscious U. S., businessmen are reassuring, and the President had named three first-rate captains of industry: i) huge, grey-blond Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, 61, Danish immigrant boy who graduated from shipyard riveting to the presidency of General Motors Corp., a ponderous, accented, self-made man, a production genius; 2) white-haired, handsome young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 39, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, able, good-natured...
Classic example of a historic U. S. figure-the self-made man-is hulking, ruddy Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, whose big competent mechanic's hands work the president's controls of one of the half-dozen biggest U. S. corporations: General Motors Corp. Danish-born Bill Knudsen believes (with personal justification) that success's best recipe is competence and hard work, its most powerful attraction the prospect of good...