Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Algiers in the dawn of Nov. 8 was a white, triangular wound against the dun hills behind the harbor. Beyond its jetties, well out in the Mediterranean, a great naval concentration stood in from Gibraltar: the Royal Navy's battleships Nelson and Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, cruisers, destroyers and transports laden with U.S. troops...
...When Nelson Stepanyan, an Armenian dive-bomber pilot in the Red Air Force, was made a Hero of the Soviet Union, the Russians said that he had destroyed: 78 German trucks, 67 tanks, 63 anti-aircraft guns, 19 mortars, 36 railroad cars, 20 merchantmen and warships (including one destroyer) 13 fuel tankers, twelve armored cars, seven long-range guns, five ammunition dumps, five bridges. Once, wounded, he was forced to land behind the German lines, but guerrillas helped him escape...
...other new vice chairman and strong man, former General Electric President Charles Edward Wilson, ran into so much trouble last week that he was close to resigning. He had orders from Donald Nelson to take full charge of aircraft production, which has coasted along on a laissez-faire basis. But Nelson did not take stern action to whip the Army & Navy into line. He merely called in some military men for "discussions." Sharp differences of opinion arose; Wilson suddenly discovered that he had full responsibility without full power...
...storm signals were still up. For Donald Nelson, the situation was rapidly getting out of hand. In the big wind sure to come some time, he would have to find a firm anchor or be blown away...
...others leased their equipment for the duration (but with specific guarantees that it was to be for "emergency" only) to two Federal agencies: Elmer Davis' Office of War Information and Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. What radio men had long been braced to expect had at last become an actuality...