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...airplane and landed ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs to get into real mass production is mass orders. Two men in charge of the dynamo whence all this humming proceeded were a white-haired young man named Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and a Danish, cat-stepping giant named William S. Knudsen...
Every morning at 8, Mr. Stettinius strode into the lobby of Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned...
...Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen went the big, full-time jobs. Most of their fellow commissioners also moved in last week. Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still...
...President had named three first-rate captains of industry: i) huge, grey-blond Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, 61, Danish immigrant boy who graduated from shipyard riveting to the presidency of General Motors Corp., a ponderous, accented, self-made man, a production genius; 2) white-haired, handsome young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 39, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, able, good-natured, a man with some flair for management, with a deep sense of social responsibility; 3) roundheaded, modest, clear-minded Ralph Budd, 60, an Iowa farm boy who became the most conspicuously able railroad executive who thinks...
...Stettinius is to find raw materials, Mr. Budd to deliver them, Mr. Knudsen to process them. To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual. Mr. Hillman will coordinate employment, supervise apprentice training...