Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cutbacks. As soon as Germany is beaten, war production will be cut back 50%, if WPB's Donald Nelson gets his way; 35% if the Army has the say. U.S. economy has expanded so much that even a 35% cutback is expected to provide almost as much manpower, material and facilities for civilian production as before...
...Mikhail Kulagin. He looks and acts like a cross between Jimmy Cagney and a Rotary greeter. Politically, he is a sort of Russian Jim Farley, slapping backs, shaking hands. Everyone knows him, wants a private word with him. He sent regards to his old pals, Hank Wallace and Don Nelson, who met him during their travels in Russia...
Jack Haley, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard get mixed up with a Dude Ranch and try to make the place a financial success. Amid bucking bronchos and strutting cowgirls, Haley and his hapless friends go through the usual routine of a grade B filler, avoiding new twists and good jokes like the plague...
Aligned solidly against Messrs. Nelson, Maverick et al. stand the Army & Navy, the able WPB vice chairman, Charles E. Wilson, and a powerful majority group of WPB lieutenants...
...convinced that its release will interfere with war production. In effect, the reconversion problem, on whose solution future U.S. prosperity largely hangs, has clashed head on with the lingering problem of war production. This week home front Czar Jimmy Byrnes offered to arbitrate the big dispute. But Donald Nelson still might need all his convalescent strength for the battle ahead...