Word: knudsen
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Ford could afford to play high-stakes games, and he had fun doing it. He stunned the automobile world in 1968, when he offered the presidency of Ford to Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, then a top executive at General Motors. Ford rented an Oldsmobile and drove to Knudsen's house to offer him the job. Within 19 months, though, Ford fired Knudsen, who had made the error of trying to get too chummy with the boss. One mistake: he constantly barged into Ford's office without knocking...
There are serious doubts in the auto industry, though, that the DMC-12 will turn into a collector's item, like the Cord or the Edsel. One such skeptic is Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, retired president of Ford Motor Co. and mentor of De Lorean when both were at GM. Says he: "Usually you have to have cars built in really small quantities to be collector's items, perhaps 700 or less...
Katherine F. Knudsen...
DIED. John Knudsen Northrop, 85, aviation pioneer and founder of Northrop Corp., who designed such celebrated planes as the original Lockheed Vega (in which Amelia Earhart made her historic solo transatlantic flight in 1932), the night-flying P-61 Black Widow fighter in World War II and the revolutionary boomerang-shaped Flying Wing; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. Northrop, who was also a co-founder of Lockheed Corp. in 1927 before starting his own firm in 1939, blamed manufacturing disputes with the Air Force, not problems of flight stability, for the fact that he never realized his dream of mass...
...Though Denver still draws the energy companies, lots of the newest arrivals are moving into Salt Lake City, Boise, Tucson and Albuquerque. In four years Hewlett-Packard has built a four-building plant employing 2,800 people in Boise, joining longtime residents Boise Cascade (34,000 workers) and Morrison-Knudsen (17,000). Hewlett-Packard has also settled in Colorado Springs, along with Texas Instruments, TRW and Honeywell. Intel, the hottest microchip company in the country, plans to join Internetics in Salt Lake City, as well as start a plant in Albuquerque. Last year National Semiconductor opened a factory employing...