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...Meade L. Bricker, 60, to the all-important job of Ford production boss, to replace Ray Rausch, Bennett protege (Rausch was shunted down the ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...
High Gear for Ford. Next day the newsmen traveled to Willow Run, sat down with Ford executives for lunch. There they got a shock. Ray Rausch, the plump, candid production boss of the Rouge plant, calmly predicted that the Ford company would turn out its first cars two months after...
...Rausch stuck to his prediction. He knows that the Ford company can do what most others cannot-it can make its own machine tools in the integrated Rouge plant. But he also knew something which had been carefully soft-pedaled before the newsmen. Come V-E day, the hyper-competitive automen will clear their plants of Government-owned equipment and materials in their own way, argue with the Government later on how it should have been done. Thus the two days of foofaraw simply boiled down to the fact that the automen sensibly wanted to scrap now the tangle...
...Bennett. Henry Ford kept mum on who will replace Sorensen. Likeliest prospect: plumpish, soft-speaking Ray R. Rausch, 49, Ford director, production boss of the Rouge, and favorite of Harry Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...
...already great influence of Bennett. Lessened was the influence of Sorensen, long nourished by the late Edsel Ford. Sorensen is still a director, still vice president in charge of production. Sorensen has had the only production seat on the board. Now he must share that chair with Rausch, close friend of Bennett. After the first board meeting came the first short but significant straw. Razzle-dazzler Steve Hannagan, whose hiring as press agent a year ago was approved by Sorensen, but never by Bennett, was fired forthwith...