Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson has won his fight with the Army-Navy procurement officers for control of arms production, a usually competent source declared tonight after President Roosevelt revealed the dispute had been settled with an agreement defining the war board's authority...
Over CBS (Sunday, 5-5:30, P.W.T.) the sonorous Welles voice besought North Americans to get to know their South American friends better. His first broadcast (Hello, Americans!) for Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Affairs committee was laid (by dramatic license) in Rio de Janeiro, where Welles had recently passed three months making a picture (It's All True, as yet unreleased). With the assistance of Carmen Miranda, an orchestra, a cast, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, enthusiastic Orson took his listeners on a radio Cook's tour of Brazil that was lively, though bumpy in spots...
...capacity Orson Welles regards himself as public-relations man for the U.S. For the first time in his life he cannot avoid early deadlines. Army censors insist on seeing the Lockheed scripts two weeks ahead of time. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, trusts Welles so completely that he does not even go over the South American scripts...
Wright, who has been in Washington for some time, had expected to take over his duties here in September. Pressure on the WPB, however, was so great that Donald Nelson felt that he could not be released...
Congratulating the Business School on its industrial re-training program, Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the WPB, described the plan of fitting business executives for positions in war industries as "a definite contribution to our war effort...