Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound class: Higgins (H) pinned Judd in 5:27, with an arm grapevine and half-nelson...
...pound class: Parsons (H) pinned Hugo in 4:45, with a half-nelson and arm grapevine...
...bonnet from the Indian Confederation), the new Who's Who gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius was in, but not Henry Kaiser. Still in: Adolf Hitler; still out: Premier Hideki Tojo...
...areas throughout the country, sales of clothes were up 200% or more over 1942 sales in the same period, and the textile market, already short because of huge Army and Lend-Lease buying, was the tightest since the war started. Both Price Administrator Brown and WPB's Donald Nelson issued reassurances that clothes rationing would not be necessary-an assurance contradicted by the fact that a week before Nelson had told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that by fall it might be necessary. Biggest runs were on higher priced, well-made women's clothing-indicating that although...
...chief of production-a high-sounding assignment which technically made him responsible for just about the whole U.S. war economy. At the same time many an ardent New Dealer either within the WPB or without it, who has little love for Ferd Eberstadt's tough realism, urged Nelson into checking Eberstadt's growing power. Finally came the current explosion, partly inevitable, partly the result of clashing authorities over which no one could or would assume a firm control. The explosives: the shortage of vital component parts needed in the Navy's escort program, the Army...