Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years. A few days before it was to be given, C.E. called her from the office and told her she would have to give it alone. He had been asked to go to Germany for ECA and report back on what should be done with German plants. Mrs. Wilson called off the party, packed a suitcase with chipped beef and peanuts, and went with him. (She thriftily considered scratching out the date on the invitations for possible future use. The engraver didn't think it would "look right for Mrs. Wilson to do that," so she gave...
Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...
...plants, where he enjoys listening to the syncopated rhythm of the production line. While walking some guests through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because he's got rhythm in his soul." Then, admiringly, Wilson...
Where's Charlie? C.E. himself learned his production lessons early. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his parents were schoolteachers, he had a childhood which many another boy would envy. The buff brick Wilson house was flanked by the homes of two locomotive engineers. They were his heroes who told him all about railroading and let him ride in their cabs...
...joined Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, as chief engineer and sales manager. In nine years he was a G.M. vice president; five years after that he became Bill Knudsen's right-hand man. In 1940, when F.D.R. tapped Knudsen to direct defense production, Vice President Wilson stepped easily into the great Dane's shoes. Since then he has had two big projects: 1) mobilize G.M. for war (tanks, planes, jet engines, etc.), and 2) reconvert it for peace...