Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson's War Production Board lost a good man last week-but thereby gained some new life...
...wheels of WPB ground too slowly for impatient Reese Taylor, who thought no time should be lost in winning the war. Even when he got an O.K. from Boss Donald Nelson, his plans sometimes bogged down in the layers of "advisers." When his steel branch was gibbeted in an unauthorized report by a $5,600-a-year WPB hireling, it was about the last straw. Last week, when his new steel quota plan (TIME, Aug. 24) seemed to have been lost in a shuffle of compromise around Donald Nelson, Reese Taylor up and quit...
Taylor's departure left a big unfilled niche in WPB, but it pointed up the problem, made it more imperative than ever for Donald Nelson to act as tough as he was now talking, to get rid of well-intentioned but inadequate subordinates and replace them with tough, efficient...
...week's end, Donald Nelson called in 100 of his top men, ordered them to stop bickering, to adopt a "hard, realistic" attitude, to forget their concern for the niceties of the civilian economy. Said Donald Nelson: "It just takes too damned long to get things done around here...
...goods output continues upward; WPBoss Don Nelson last week reported July output 16% over June to another record. But in many industries output is headed down. Lumber output runs 15% below the 1941-42 peaks; paperboard production teeters 32% below the January high; retail sales are below recent levels and barely equal to last year...