Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production climbed another high plateau. Happily, WPBoss Donald Nelson summed up October...
Millions of people will listen in this Saturday to the 44th playing of the most famed game in football, Army v. Navy.* It will be short-waved to U.S. military posts throughout the world. Thanks to a Nelson Rockefeller suggestion, Latin Americans will hear (if by any chance they are interested) a play-by-play description in Spanish. But no listener will be more excited than a Polish immigrant who will be getting ready for the night shift at a Steubenville, Ohio open-hearth steel furnace. His son is captain of the Army team...
Gone Again. But by week's end the spell had worn off. Out of WPB came sour reports: Don Nelson was gloomy again about the agency's future, might soon sit down and write another resignation...
Where Death Is Made. The Russians are justly secretive about their aircraft plants. Since the war began, probably no more than a dozen non-Russians, including WPB's Donald Nelson (see p. 20) have been allowed inside. But Soviet newspapers received in the U.S. last week cautiously described a Stormovik factory...
...things that fail to stir their interest: hospital care, cleanliness, antivenereal treatments, vaccination, privies. Nor were they much impressed, at first, by Dr. David Glusker, nor by the fact that Dr. Glusker had been an instructor in Medicine at Cornell Medical School before he joined the Army last February. (Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs had discovered that Dr. Glusker knew a lot about tropical medicine and Spanish and whisked him off to the Tingo Maria district of Peru...