Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time there was just as big a change as in any of those elaborate overturns. Donald Nelson got himself a whole cabinet of new executives. And this time the new bosses are not merely men who had fancy titles in their companies. They are men out of the real top drawer of private industry...
...same week that Donald Nelson helped President Roosevelt pick a real No. 1 man of U.S. industry-Union Pacific's able president, William Martin Jeffers-for rubber tsar (see p. 77), he went on to pick three other men out of the top drawer...
...head of WPB's vital Iron & Steel Branch-the disgusted resignation of whose boss, big Reese Taylor (TIME, Sept. 7), helped precipitate Nelson's action-he picked Hiland Garfield Batcheller, head of small but potent Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp...
Cold to Lukewarm. Donald Nelson had become skeptical; he demanded that Kaiser produce detailed plans. Kaiser did not have them: he was leaving the designing and engineering up to Howard Hughes; mass-production details would have to wait. But three days of tumultuous conferences gave Washington a chance to hear and understand the Kaiser viewpoint, and at week's end the atmosphere had warmed a little...
Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci; Tenor Enrico Caruso; Baritones Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett...