Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson landed in Washington last week after a 63-hour plane ride from Kunming, China. He went to his apartment to wait for the White House to call for his report. Don Nelson seemed more cheerful about China's future than about...
Down on a Chungking airport came a big C-54 from over the Hump. Out stepped three U.S. guests of China: WPBoss Donald Nelson, dressed in a snappy blue suit and blue tie; Major General Patrick Hurley, wearing a bush jacket; and General Joseph Stilwell, in khaki field jacket. On hand to welcome the visitors were Chinese officials led by T. V. Soong, Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...first day of their stay the Americans saw Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Next day they conferred with the Chinese Ministers of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Vice Minister of Finance, and others. They held a press conference, attended by almost 40 reporters, largely Chinese. Businessman Nelson took complete command of the situation, spoke with off-the-record frankness. The gist of his on-the-record remarks: the U.S. mission's primary purpose was to set up the means for licking Japan. But it was also going to study the economic situation, present and prospective, with a view to immediate...
While we are on the subject of basking in the sunlight of the professorial smile, Don Nelson, by virtue of having a very famous uncle (not the WPB chief) is the fairhaired...
...Policy. WPBster Krug was more specific. As a starter, he junked the carefully nurtured policy of WPB's China-junketing chairman Don Nelson. Boss Nelson had held that WPB, which wound up the U.S. economy for war, should unwind it, coil by coil. Said Krug: let industry unwind itself into peacetime production in its own way. "Our private economy has to carry the ball. . . . It's not WPB's function to make work but to remove obstacles ... so that the ingenuity of management and know-how of the worker can go ahead. . . . There...