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Until war's end, the Ford burden must inevitably fall upon the two most trusted men in the empire - tall, hawk-nosed Charles E. Sorensen, vice president, and squat, nail-hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge...
White Cloud, a 60-ft. cutter owned by Detroit's Charles E. Sorensen: the 35th annual Chicago-to-Mackinac yacht race, world's longest fresh-water race; in her first try; outsailing 24 other Class A cruising entries and finishing eleven hours ahead of her nearest rival. A recent refugee from East Coast racing, White Cloud made the 331 miles (steamer route) in 38 hr. 14 min. 5 sec., fastest time since 1911. Absent from the helm was Owner Sorensen, Ford's production chief, too busy to take three days off even for his favorite pastime...
...shipped a steady stream of sub-assemblies to North American for months. Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...
...Sorensen's phrase that hurt. Basic difference between automobile and aviation manufacturing technique was that the automakers mass-produced for a mass market, the planemakers tapped and tinkered for the carriage trade. Even with billions of war orders on the books, the aircraft makers have only partly changed their methods. One reason is that the Army and Navy won't completely freeze designs. Even after the design of his own B-25 bomber had been "frozen," said Kindelberger, 15,000 blueprints were changed, 4,000 parts were completely redesigned. Snapped he: "Talk about freezing plane designs...
...Detroit's methods are different; there is a question of how flexible they may prove if design changes come too thick & fast. Detroit's biggest single venture into aircraft-the titanic Ford plant at Willow Run-has yet to show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said he: "[This plant] is an invitation for Hitler to commit suicide...