Great link!
Sorensen really drove Willow Run. Henry Ford was still in the grip of his pacifism and, to a lesser extent, his pro-Nazi antisemitism. And he was just old and cranky. When they were laying out the plant at Willow Run, he used to have his driver take him out there and he’d pull out all the stakes that had been driven. Sorenson finally got around him by having the steam shovels standing by, and as soon as an area was staked, they’d start digging.