Word: sorensen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conferring and writing interoffice memos, Ford was proving his old theory of one-man control. He had no stockholders; he was more interested in making things than making money; all he had to do, to get a new plant built, was call in Production Boss Charles E. Sorensen and say: "All right, Charlie, let's go ahead...
...them to Ford; he can take brains and manpower from Packard, give them to Nash. Whether such pooling would be attempted was undecided this week. Detroit dopesters expected Kanzler to ring himself with specialists: Chrysler's fast-moving Eddie Hunt for tank production, Ford's burly Charles Sorensen for bombers, G.M.'s Ormond Hunt (no kin to Eddie) for ordnance work...
Somewhere west of Iceland the Reuben James was sunk. The Navy merely said ". . . by a torpedo during the night. . . ." Walter Sorensen was aboard when the torpedo hit. Rube had none of the Kearny's fancy compartmentation; she just holed and sank, and Walter Sorensen went into the sea with...
...South 55th Street, Omaha, early this week, Walter Sorensen's sister Anna still did not know for sure whether Walter was dead. She only knew what she read in the papers: of 142 men aboard, 45 men had been saved, eight of them injured. One body was recovered. One man died after being rescued. The Navy Department had "little hope" for the seven officers and 88 men who were unaccounted...
Among the 88 was Walter Sorensen. When a reporter asked Anna how she felt, she said a casual mouthful about one American boy who risked a lot for 62 bucks a month...