Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Donald Marr Nelson reported: 1942's war production reached $59 billion ($9 billion under the original goal); 1943's goal is $106 billion and is "most formidable." But the nub of his report was on civilian prospects...
...said Nelson, the consumer got more goods and services than he had ever had before-except for slap-happy 1941, when the war program took a far smaller share of total output than its 40% bite by the end of 1942. This year there is no more slack to take up in manpower and materials; civilian production will nosedive as war production rises. Overall per-capita consumption will probably be off 20% from last year...
...Nelson's lesson was crystal clear: the U.S. civilian's personal war boom is just about over for the duration...
...moment, the President paused to act on domestic troubles. This program note was an executive order creating a new superagency called the Office of War Mobilization. Headed by Justice James F. Byrnes, OWM will include in its membership Secretaries Stimson and Knox, Harry Hopkins, Donald Nelson and the new face of Judge Fred M. Vinson. Mr. Roosevelt's personal program was unwritten but plain: from now on he would be Commander in Chief. "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes would boss the home front. Boss Jimmy promised the U.S.: "Many attacks on many fronts lie ahead...
Samuel Haydock, Walter Sumner Hayward, Jr., Brooks Nye Heath, Nelson Fischer Hermance, Jr., Harry Lindley Hosford, Jr., Richard Farnsworth Hunnewell, Paul James Kirby, Robert Galen Knight, Francis Edward Lawlor, George Knowlton Lewis, Gustaf Berg Lindquist, Stuart McCarty, Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh...