Word: milo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board of Economic Warfare) tries to damage the enemy's economics (by export-import policies), acts as an economics intelligence division for the Army & Navy. Head is Vice President Henry Agard Wallace; executive director, Milo Perkins...
...late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort is gathered at one table in the Raleigh's dining room. Other days, Don Nelson lunches at his desk...
...enemy expeditionary force of 100,000 slogged their way through the clinging goo of winter-flooded rice paddy fields as fast as heavy legs could take them. But they had a long way to go before they could reach the protection of their own artillery stalled along the Milo river...
...accomplish this huge task, Executive Director Milo Perkins split EDB into four autonomous geographical divisions...
...American Hemisphere, directed by soft-voiced Rhodes Scholar Carl B. Spaeth, Nelson Rockefeller's Latin American commercial aide. To bureaucratic Washington's surprise, Nelson Rockefeller not only willingly released Carl Spaeth, but told him to take along his capable 100-man economic staff. Said he to Milo Perkins: "You've got the authority and I've got the people. . . . Let's get together...