WAR PRODUCTION
MR KNUDSEN'S NEW POST. GIVEN HIGH ARMY RANK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, January 17. President Roosevelt appointed Mr William S. Knudspn (former president of the General Motors Corporation and director of the U.S. Office of Production Management), Director of Production for the War Department and nominated him simultaneously Lieut-Gen-eral in the United States Army. He will also serve as a member of the War Production Board under Mr Nelson. Mr Knudsen will have the entire charge of directing and expediting the War Department’s munitions programme, specially the production of aeroplanes, tanks, guns and ammunition. Mr Roosevelt said. “Mr Knudsen is one of the great production men of the world. His acceptance of this post means that he can give his entire time to direction of the production field in which he is unequalled.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1942, Page 3
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