Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carping crackpot made this shattering statement last week, but a man who ought to know. It came, in fact, from the head of WPB's Conservation & Substitution Division, mild, white-thatched Harvey A. Anderson. Before he came to Washington he was the ace waste eliminator for American Telephone & Telegraph; now he is a thorn in the side of Army & Navy. Last week, with his big boss Don Nelson engaged in his own grapple with the services over scarce materials, Harvey Anderson was mad enough to blow...
...Harvey Anderson's charge that bad management is the real cause of the metals crisis was backed up by no less an expert than Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to the Department of Agriculture, now on leave to WPB to study the steel shortage. Behind closed doors Ezekiel told a subcommittee of the House that faulty allocation of steel, rather than any serious general shortage, forced the Government's sensational decision to cancel its order for 200 sorely needed Liberty ships from Higgins Corp. of New Orleans (TIME, July...
...Many a mickle makes a muckle" says Harvey Anderson, when he is challenged on his belief that waste like this is the one big reason for the raw-materials crisis. He wants a new, over-all review of all Army & Navy specifications, with particular emphasis upon using more secondary, reprocessed metals. He also believes that castings could replace metal-wasting machining operations in many cases, that silver could bear much more of the load borne by copper, nickel...
...Harvey Anderson knows that no mickles will make any muckle to speak of until the hard core of the U.S.'s war-production crisis is cracked. So long as no overall production tsar exists in fact as well as in name, no overall production orders will even be properly formulated, let alone carried...
...Harvey's hits were also influential in the runs-batted-in department, since his sixth inning single was the blow that scored runners from second and third to put the Crimson one up, after trailing...