Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odds were that Nelson now would adopt something approaching Taylor's steel quota plan which would give one single authority power to divide the amount of steel available and give each user a quota for keeps. It was even likely that Nelson would apply similar quota systems to other commodities and toss the report-ridden, unwieldy old Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") out the window. If so, Taylor would have accomplished by quitting what he had not been able to do by working in Washington...
Britain's Precept. A yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
Last week Donald Nelson had the tiny plant put at the head of the 1,300 plants enrolled in the Labor-Management War Production Drive, sent out an honor flag poster and a congratulatory letter...
...from Manhattan to Miami in her wheel chair, plants her in the path of the playboy she is trailing. Risking a 20-year jail turn, Pinks blackmails the crook who slapped her (Barton MacLane) into a one-night loan of a nightclub (complete with Ozzie Nelson), stages a blowout to bolster Her Highness' fading delusions of grandeur. To cap the climax, Pinks appears in full dress, and Her Highness sees him for the first time as he really is. Galvanized by his love (and hers), she dances a few miraculous steps with him only to die, happy...
...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...