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Last week Charlie Wilson swore Bedford in as head of the Production Executive Committee, gave him power to ride herd on the whole defense program. A few hours later, Bedford took off on a tour of West Coast aircraft and ordnance plants, hunting new bottlenecks to unclog...
Mackenzie built Matador's stock to what proud Matador hands called "the world's finest" herd of Herefords. He once said: "If we can obtain a bull that will add 10? a head to the price of Matadors over a period of years, there is no price too great for us to pay." For Murdo, work was an obsession. "I can't see why men would play golf when they can work," he said...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...
Some of the liveliest historical writing about the Old West (The Trampling Herd, Death in the Desert) is the work of an ex-cowhand and ex-Kansas newspaperman named Paul I. (Iselin) Wellman. All of it was done before Wellman went to the far West, all the way to Hollywood, in fact, where he became a scriptwriter. Now, in The Iron Mistress, a historical novel about Frontiersman James Bowie, he writes thus...
...problems of inadequate planning and inefficient administration. This is not altogether bluff Charlie Wilson's fault. At the outset, the President had decided that, as far as possible, production chores would be carried out by old-line Government departments. For most of the year, Wilson has been riding herd on dozens of bureaus and agencies which were not always going in the same direction. But when he reported to Washington, he was given almost unlimited powers. He has not always used them in the slam-bang way that was expected, particularly in shaking up the poky procurement methods...