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...four Du Ponts-Henry B., Henry F., Lammot, Pierre-who dominate the board; 220,434 workers in no plants, 14 States (Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington), who earned $386,292,203 last year; grey-red, hulky President Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, who has earned $307,200 in a single year (1937); husky, handsome Max Raynes, 27, a Detroit buckaroo who spends his dough (wages last week: $40.79) on clothes and girls, gives his old father $5 a week; Floyd Forbus, 36, of Flint, who made $1,800 last year...
...year-old Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first...
...Signius Wilkelm Paul (William) Knitdsen who had $30 when he reached the U. S. from Denmark in 1900. Mr. Knudsen spoke no English, picked up the language by listening to his landlady's children. He got a job with the John R. Keim mills in Buffalo, sold automobile parts to Henry Ford, went to work for Ford Motor Co. when Mr. Ford bought out John R. Keim, became production manager at the Highland Park plant. In 1921 he left Mr. Ford, in 1922 turned up at Chevrolet, became Chevrolet's president two years later. So well...
Sailing to attend the Paris Automobile Show, Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors Corp., who wonders why grass is green, predicted: "This country will never submit to regimentation and it will emerge from the Depression because it has too many Charles M. Schwabs...
Last week the following were news: Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, 54, head of General Motors' Chevrolet division, was made executive vice president in charge of all GM's manufacturing operations in the U. S. and Canada. A Dane from Copenhagen, he emigrated to the U. S. at 21, got a job in a shipyard, worked for Erie R. R., then shot up as an assembly man for Henry Ford. Quitting as manager of all Ford plants in 1921, he soon joined Chevrolet. A tall, slightly stooped man with a big walrus mustache, Motorman Knudsen is a genius...