Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 56, who made his mark as a Chevrolet salesman before he turned to production...
...planned to be ready soon to produce all of its cars. Pontiac was scheduled to start rolling off the lines in a week. Buick a week later, and Chevrolet and Oldsmobile in two weeks...
...made up of G.M.'s officers, board members and division heads, work out the tactics. Within the strategic plan, the divisions run almost as freely as independent companies. Not long ago Mr. Sloan remarked: "If the whole General Motors central organization should be hit by an atomic bomb, Pontiac could go on just exactly the same...
...Pontiac and all the other 41 divisions would go right on because the division heads are, in effect, a general staff for production in themselves. At the top is Charles Erwin Wilson,* 55, who gets $151,000 a year plus bonuses. White-haired, slow-talking, he bossed G.M.'s conversion to war, is now guiding it back to peace. In the U.A.W. strike against G.M., it is Charlie Wilson who will sit down and face the union across the bargaining table. Sloan has never done the actual bargaining with the U.A.W. An engineer by training, C.E. stepped into...
GENERAL MOTORS CORP. G.M.'s problem is typical of all auto manufacturers. It needs new machine tools, must rid its plants of heavy war machinery. (Pontiac has long been mapping its new-assembly lines-). G.M. must also accumulate a huge supply of raw materials (steel, textiles, etc.) in a fiercely competitive market. Once these problems are licked, G.M. has high hopes for the future. Its ultimate employment goal: 400,000 factory workers (1939 high: 201,000); 200,000 distributors (1939 total...