Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This reasoning seemed historically sound. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, the half-Nelson of Japan, had caught Russian Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet 18,000-miles off base in Tsushima Strait and destroyed...
...NELSON M. FOOTE...
There were other telltales. For one: manufacturing employment has steadily declined since last November. By last month the U.S. had 1,000,000 fewer workers than it had six months earlier. For another: Donald Nelson said that it is finally time for U.S. industry to take the first steps toward manufacture of peacetime goods...
...pulling off all the wraps to let industry reconvert to peace? Far from it. Sternly Nelson warned that war production still came first, that "the next three months will in some ways be the most critical we have yet faced...
...make sure of swift reconversion, WPB emphasized that anyone may make anything if facilities are free of war work, and materials are available. Thus, Donald Nelson said, the U.S. would avoid the "grave danger of shackling the U.S. with a regimented economy...