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...elevated to Rouge boss in 1933. A quick and practical improviser, Rausch often steps out of Rouge to solve problems in other parts of the empire. As a production man, he is second only to tall, handsome Charles E. Sorensen. When a shortage of fabricated steel threatened to halt Willow Run construction, Rausch began fabricating girders in the Rouge foundry, thus kept Willow Run stretching over the ground...
...Bluff, outspoken Mead L. Bricker, 58, general manager of Willow Run, has an armor-plated exterior, a soft, sentimental interior. He came to Ford in 1917, held various production jobs in the Rouge and Highland Park plants, was sent into Willow Run a year ago when the plant was hamstrung by production kinks. Bricker now has the plant on schedule...
...Edsel was always in the background. When Henry Ford confidently stated that he could build 1,000 planes a day, it was up to Edsel to prove that the company could at least build 500 planes a month at Willow Run (he lived to see the goal in sight). The teacher still created problems for the pupil to solve...
...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 plant against saboteurs in 1917, he stayed to guard the Ford family from kidnappers...
...July 30 he will be 80. But his blue eyes are still sharp, his mind disconcertingly keen. Hours of his days are still spent dogtrotting through the Rouge and Willow Run shops, poking his long nose into obscure corners, knowing everything that is going on. At no time during the long years when Edsel sat in the presidency did his father permit him to rule alone. As Henry explained: "He knows some things better than I do and I know some things better than he does." One thing which Henry Ford knows better than anyone - while he lives...