Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, then buttered up Jeffers but dripped bile on Nelson and WPB. The priority which Nelson should not have granted had cost 4,413,000 barrels of 100-octane, had thrown the whole gasoline program out of balance, said Ickes. WPB had permitted vital parts to be hoarded while plants lay idle for their lack. WPB's new scheduling program was not working...
...below because none was exercised from above. The point of General Somervell's speech actually was that WPB had failed and was still failing. This was the point of many Washington developments throughout the week. And every one of the developments was a direct blow to Donald Marr Nelson, the fumbling, ineffectual WPBoss who had more power than Bernard Baruch had in World War I but who either didn't use it or didn't know...
...week's onslaught on Nelson added up almost to an indictment. Congress was weary of the fumbling. The Senate planned soon to pass the Maloney bill, which would strip Nelson of about half his powers, those over civilian supply, and turn them over to a new agency directly under Economic Czar Jimmy Byrnes (TIME, April...
...Nelson to the Hill. But the main attack on Nelson came from Capitol Hill, where the Truman Committee had begun to delve into the rubber and 100-octane programs. When War Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson charged that the rubber program had caused a shortage of 100-octane gasoline for planes, and thus delayed all-out bombing of Germany, the public had thought he was after the Rubber Czar, Bull Bill Jeffers. But when the Truman Committee dug, they hardly noticed Jeffers; the real quarry turned out to be Nelson...
...James V. Forrestal, Navy Under Secretary, charged that the overriding priority which Nelson handed Jeffers to let him bull through 55% of the synthetic rubber program had cost the Navy 100 escort vessels. It had further jammed the production of valves and other parts essential to the Navy as well as to 100-octane and Navy programs. Jeffers was not to blame; Nelson never should have granted the priority in the first place...