Word: sorensen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last August, Son Edsel Ford and tough, brilliant Production Manager Charles E. Sorensen visited Hartford, Conn., where Pratt & Whitney had already upped its capacity nearly ten times since January 1939. Abuilding were factory additions which would double the August capacity, give P. & W. a production rate of 17,000 to 20,000 engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
Airplanes. Ever since he told reporters that he could build 1,000 airplanes a day, Henry Ford's return to the aircraft business (he stopped making Ford tri-motors in 1932) has been waited for. Last week he and his production chief, tough, profane Charles E. Sorensen, were stroking their chins over a variety of projects- high-powered Rolls-Royce engines, shot-welded Duralumin fuselages, even plastics. From London, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Air, announced that Ford would make 6,000 Rolls-Royces for Britain; from Washington, Defense Advisory Commissioner William S. Knudsen announced that Ford would make...