Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods used by the starfish in a successful attack on an oyster (TIME, Dec. 28), but here on the banks of the Raritan any attentive zoology student can offer enlightenment to the bewildered-for the true facts of the case have been presented to us by Professor Thurlow C. Nelson, who for years has been a leading authority on oyster life...
...them spend much time on personalities-they're busy explaining "issues." But TIME'S editors believe you are instinctively right in wanting your Washington friend to tell you first about the people who are making the news. It's all fine to read that Donald Nelson says he is going to get tough-but Nelson can't get tough unless he is tough. A man's words don't mean much until you have had a chance to size up the man himself, for actions grow out of character, not out of words...
...Production Chairman Donald M. Nelson last week had surprising news for the U.S. people. The U.S. civilian economy, which during the year has seen the manufacture of not one new civilian automobile, refrigerator, washing machine, alarm clock, trouser cuff, radio or many a smaller doodad or furbelow, has been cut about as deeply as it will be. The problem now is to simplify, standardize, produce more of the things Americans must have from the materials and manpower now available...
...civilian production. Since the nation was living on inventories of many goods no longer produced, few U.S. citizens realized how tight the civilian belt now was. Some officials thought it was already too tight for public health and morale; others felt it could stand another notch. Donald Nelson agreed with neither faction, took a down-the-middle view. Said he: "I have no evidence as yet to show that we have trimmed too far. On the other hand I feel that not much more trimming can be done that will yield substantial quantities of war materials...
...both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...