Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maude Phelps Hutchins, sculptress wife of the University of Chicago's president, had a life-size male nude all ready for casting in bronze, but no bronze. She wrote to WPB's Donald Nelson, asking how about letting her have some idle bronze on loan, if she promised to give it back the moment it was needed? The reply she got from Washington, "apparently written by one of Mr. Nelson's secretaries," counseled patience and looked forward to the postwar world. She wrote again, got more advice. Her young man of plaster (with hands held determinedly behind...
Last month Minnesota Congressman Melvin Maas, bellicose complainer about the way the Pacific war is being fought (TIME, Nov. 23), charged that WPB had refused paper to the publisher who was preparing to put out a new, and anti-New Deal, Maas book. But WPB Chairman Donald Nelson specifically denied that any attempt had been made to interfere with its publication. A WPB spokesman asserted that Representative Maas's publisher, William B. Ziff, had "not yet used up the extra paper we granted him, so [lack of paper] could not have been a reason...
...chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike a match...
Last week WPB's rotund, owlish Chief Donald M. Nelson cautiously peered at reconversion, found it not so frightening. Said Nelson: in the first war stage, the job of U.S. industry was to spew out enormous quantities of every kind of weapon. But the U.S. is now in the second war stage, when emphasis has shifted to the production of special weapons and expanded manufacture of peacetime articles is needed to keep the war machine whirling. Example: farm machinery...
...Thus, Nelson made clear, reconversion is not something to be sprung on the U.S. overnight. It is now going on, and the invasion of Europe will accelerate it. To support invading armies, transportation facilities must be rebuilt and expanded. (Part of Baldwin Locomotive is shifting from tank manufacture to making special locomotives for the Government, for use in Europe.) To feed, clothe and shelter civilian populations, U.S. capital goods production must still be large. All this means that a big chunk of U.S. industry will probably be hard at peacetime production when the war ends, although production...