Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy intends to be still bigger. Said a report from Donald Nelson's WPB: "The present goal of the Navy Department for 1944 is . . . almost a 50% increase over the record-breaking fleet built...
...rest of the dramatis personae of the capital's melodorous mystery thriller, the jury decided, had nothing to do with the case, excepting C. Nelson Sparks, the ex-Mayor of Akron. The role assigned to him was that of the victim: he-had innocently published the phony letter in his garbled assault on One Man-Wendell Willkie...
...figures boiled down to a 1944 first-quarter reserve of only 10,979 tons, a margin of only 1.3%. These figures disposed of publishers' fears that Donald Nelson and Harold Boeschenstein were dragging the U.S. into the newsprint business...
Floyd Stahl has expressed the probability that they Navy lineup will be a combination of Eliot and the Varsity, and there is a strong possibility that Andy Nelson and Varsity-ineligibles George Boston and Henry Hibbard of the Eliot squad will be included in the starting five. Several of the ASTP players are veterans of college and high school competition...
Tiny, trim, hatchet-faced C. Nelson Sparks had published the letter because he thought it proved that "Mr. Willkie is close to the New Deal. . . . Willkie is just a stooge. . . ." Also, the letter added sales value to his book, One Man -Wendell Willkie, in which it appeared...