Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When WPBoss Donald Nelson gets back to his desk, perhaps this week, he faces a tougher fight than his successful bout with pneumonia. While he was abed his balky WPB co-workers had shelved what is probably the most important order Nelson had ever issued: an order that would begin the reconversion of U.S. war plants in an orderly...
...Nelson's sidetracked directive would per mit manufacturers to utilize the great masses of surplus aluminum and magnesium. Under restrictions, they could forge experimental models of postwar products. More important, war contractors whose orders are canceled or have been cut back could resume consumption of these metals for a limited output of civilian goods. In effect, the long-delayed Nelson order is a clutch that would allow the industrial gears to change from war to peace production without stopping the whole machine...
...stolid Don Nelson, and bouncy Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp., are in a minority. They argue that idle U.S. machinery and men should be free to use the mountains of surplus aluminum. (Fortnight ago the Aluminum Association stated that curtail ments in aluminum for war materials now exceed the total amount of aluminum used by the country annually before the war.) Last week SWPC estimated that two and a half million tons of steel in odd lots, shapes and sizes could be turned over to small manufacturers who have no war contracts...
...What Nelson, Maverick & Co. were striving for was a gradual adjustment from war to peace with a minimum lag in employment for labor, and minimum chaos and financial loss to manufacturers...
...exodus from Washington has become so apparent that WPB Boss Don Nelson has quietly started a drive to recruit new men from industry. But Charlie Wilson is a real bellwether. As long as he stays, many another WPBster will remain. When he goes, the rush will...