Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High scoring Tartars were Bill Hocking with 120 points, Bill Nelson with 13, and Norm Racusin with 11. On the starting lineup were Hocking, Nelson, Racusin, Tony Wise, and Anthes Smith...
...Nelson had called in another stout assistant, who tackled what was, in effect, the same job from a different angle. General Electric Co.'s President Charles Wilson is one of the country's outstanding production engineers. In WPB he concentrated on production schedules. In a few short weeks he had cut in on Eberstadt, cut in on the military. The armed forces protested, told WPB it should stick to the stuff that guns are made...
...well-entrenched guard. On its general staff were New Deal intellectuals like Milton Katz, just another member of the WPB legal staff, actually Nelson's chief legal adviser; there was Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, Planner Bob Nathan, Statistician Simon Kuznetz, and at least one former businessman, Vice Chairman William L. Batt. Behind the scenes they campaigned and politicked to throw Eberstadt out, put Wilson...
When M-day came to WPB last week, Donald Nelson faced a dilemma of his own making. Month ago he could have bumped the heads of his fractious assistants. Last week Palace Guard shenanigans had gone too far to make this any longer possible. In sacrifice of top-flight ability, his indecision had cost the U.S. dearly...
...Will this latest shake-up prevent a recurrence of these costly disturbances? One can only guess regretfully 'no'-regretfully, because their source, one can't help feeling, will not be removed until Mr. Nelson himself steps down...