Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody paid much attention to a report four weeks ago by the House Tolan Committee urging a single high economic commander with full power to coordinate supply (Donald Nelson's job), manpower (Paul McNutt) and economic stabilization (James F. Byrnes). Nor did bills to set up the command, quietly dropped into Senate and House hoppers, set Capitol Hill or the Administration on fire...
...classic muddle of scientific war research was tidied up by WPB's Donald Nelson last week. He finally created a long-awaited agency, the Office of Production Research & Development, named its director: 61-year-old Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, president of Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology...
Originally called the Office of Technical Development, OPRD aims to: 1) provide Nelson with data on WPB's technical problems; 2) pass on suggestions which come to WPB through outside sources; 3) farm out experimental work; 4) when necessary, construct full-size pilot plants. Working on industrial problems, it will parallel rather than supplant the Office of Scientific Research & Development, which is concerned with research in munitions and war weapons...
OPRD was eleven months overdue. As far back as last April Nelson appointed a reconnoitering committee, headed by bombastic, nonscientific Maury Maverick, ex-Congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, to make recommendations for a bureau of production research. Maverick did his work quietly for once. Yet the result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided...
...over 85%) into a voting trust, to be engineered by Investment Bankers Schroder Rockefeller & Co. Over half the stock would be owned by Americans and all of the five voting trustees except Yerex himself would be U.S. citizens-among them Schroder Rockefeller Vice President Avery Rockefeller, whose second cousin Nelson is now officially the U.S.'s No. 1 good-neighbor man. Under this deal Yerex could be outvoted four to one by U.S. citizens...