Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan-It. In this setup, Ferd Eberstadt, 52, will inevitably become Donald Nelson's second in command. He is used to taking charge. In World War I he interrupted his Columbia University law course to serve in France in the 304th Field Artillery, was wounded and rose to captain, was noted for commanding the best-drilled, best-disciplined battery in the 304th. Afterward he went to Wall Street as a corporation lawyer, soon was a partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started...
...took both Nelson and President Roosevelt to persuade Wilson that he could serve better in Washington than with G.E. Said he, after that hard decision was made: "It took me 40 years to climb to the presidency and 40 seconds to step out. . . . [But] I keep reminding myself that there's a war on. Hell's broke loose and I've got to do something about...
Peace With the Army? WPB'S shake-up looked as if it might end the long-standing fight between Donald Nelson and the Army (TIME, Aug. 3) by the simple process of merger...
...will not necessarily succeed where the old WPB failed. Many a problem is still unsolved: the deadwood which Donald Nelson had not yet cleared out of WPB's staff, the development of a new system to ease raw-material shortages, the fact that WPB-which has no control over manpower or prices-is intrinsically a poor substitute for a genuine Economic High Command. And it still remains to be seen whether even really top-drawer industrial executives can get Washington's huge bureaucracy to function-or will be able to put up temperamentally with its futility...
...over the U.S. last week, superintendents, foremen, brass hats, workmen in the shipbuilding industry shared Mr. O'Laughlin's elation. Last week Donald Nelson announced that U.S. war production had increased 350% since Pearl Harbor, but his figure does not apply to the shipbuilding industry. Since Pearl Harbor, shipbuilders have increased production roughly...