Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owlish Don Nelson had a wonderful time. In Washington he returned to a cold, grey morning-after...
After a brief, angry look at what had been going on in WPB while he was away, Don Nelson sat down and wrote out his resignation. Then, in a well-harnessed huff, he hurried off to the White House to ask Franklin Roosevelt some pointed questions...
...Again. On the surface, WPB seemed to be falling apart. Don Nelson got back just in time to receive the resignations of three top assistants. Tough, hard-driving WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, TIME, NOVEMBER 22, 1943 who has been slashing away at politics, bureaucracy and Army red tape for 14 months, was planning to go back to his $175,000-a-year job as president of General Electric. Well aware that production of planes, rubber, radio and trucks still lags, Charlie Wilson also knew that he had successfully pulled U.S. production through. Said...
...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
...Again. Don Nelson emerged from the White House with a smooth brow. Grinning broadly, he no longer spoke of resigning. The President had talked with enthusiasm, had smiled graciously, had given assurances that Don Nelson and WPB: 1) still have an important job of directing wartime production, 2) will some day have an even larger job in turning U.S. industry back to peacetime production...