Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swede" Nelson, who starred on the unbeaten eleven of 1919 and later served as backfield coach under Eddie Casey, will be the featured speaker, it is hoped. Captain Don Forte, Russ Stannard, and Coach Harlow will also talk briefly, while the entire team will take bows...
...Nelson's point: hereafter the central war problem is not how many little businesses can be kept going, but how many nonwar businesses, big or little, have any war-useful resources. And if such war-useless enterprises can be put to sleep instead of to death, they and the U.S. will be better...
These tough words came last week from WPB's Industrial Conservation chief, shy philanthropic Lessing Rosenwald, as he announced a new all-out drive for industry's "dormant scrap." Donald Nelson backed up his chief junkman in even tougher talk: "The one thing we must not do," he said, "is to pack machinery and equipment away permanently or in grease against the end of the war." Every existing piece of machinery must be used now for war production, for replacement parts for other machines, or for scrap...
...Nelson, Rosenwald & Co. meant their words literally, they were promoting a far more drastic operation upon industry than industry's captains had yet been warned to expect-however harassed they may think they have been heretofore. It would mean that nonwar manufacturers-even those who are limping along without using critical materials or machinery needed elsewhere in its present form-are about to see their means of production go to the junk pile. More important to the U.S. as a whole, it would mean that, when peace comes, there will be no machinery left that is designed to produce...
...things considered, it is a safe bet that what Nelson and Rosenwald were really planning to take-at least in the near future-was: 1) the machinery still being used for nonwar production (or for no production at all) that could and should be put to war production; 2) the vast, uncounted hoard of obsolescing and obsolete machinery that should have been written off and junked long ago. Taking the former would merely hasten the demise of a peace plant which is probably doomed for the duration by materials or labor shortages. (Such a plant would become a case...