Word: sorensen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elementary [public] school and whip him for something he has done and all too often he goes whining to his mother. . . . Take a boy in a public [private] school and flog him, perhaps for something he has not done, and one never hears a word about it." R. W. Sorensen, Labor Member of the House of Commons, announced that he would ask the Minister of Health "if he is aware that in plans of postwar housing no provision appears for the construction of adequate shelter against future bombings...
When handsome, smooth Charles E. Sorensen was squeezed out as Henry Ford's production boss three months ago, he flopped down on a Florida beach to rest. Last week, his rest was up. He stepped in as the new president of bouncing Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., and perhaps, in the carnivorous auto industry, to try to take a revengeful hunk out of spry old Henry's hide. Willys, which has been hunting a president since Joseph Washington Fraser quit eight months ago, kept mum on details of the deal. But it was reported that in addition to Sorensen...
...biggest trouble for Henry will probably come from a Sorensen-run Willys. Once in receivership, war-rich Willys netted a healthy profit of $1,558,369 in the six months ended March 31, has $6,862,156 tucked away to build postwar autos. Most important, the jeep designed by Willys and Army Ordnance (TIME, Nov. 3, 1941) has sold itself to the world. No one doubted that Charlie Sorensen intends to duplicate the feat of Big Bill Knudsen who was squeezed out of Ford in 1921. Knudsen went to General Motors, and by booming Chevrolet sales, stole such a vast...
Despite his backbreaking job of bossing all Ford production-and overseeing the building of Ford plants around the globe-Sorensen had plenty of time for deep-sea fishing, yachting (his cutter won the 1942 Detroit-Mackinac race), bridge and music. (He still plays the violin...
...Bennett. Henry Ford kept mum on who will replace Sorensen. Likeliest prospect: plumpish, soft-speaking Ray R. Rausch, 49, Ford director, production boss of the Rouge, and favorite of Harry Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...