Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor got quick action from the boss. Nelson at once disowned the report, ordered Libbey fired for talking out of turn, gathered the whole steel branch around him to promise no more monkeyshines. Never before had Nelson moved so quickly...
...what I have said made Mr. Nelson mad enough to clear out the deadwood, my head is a cheap price to pay for it. I would gladly give what little neck I have left to see the boss up to his knees in splinters and still swinging...
...Nelson kept swinging for the rest of the week. When newsmen asked if he really meant to get and stay hard-boiled this time, he pounded his desk so hard that the inkwells jumped. Shouted Donald Nelson: "I am going to get tough enough to get this job done, and the job will be done. You can be sure of that. From now on anybody who crosses my path is going to have his head taken...
...decided-but by week's end, except for firing Libbey and bucking the Army on field agents' priorities, he had not yet acted. Washington watched closely, to see whether Nelson's new toughness was in the biceps or larynx. WPB's hour was late. The problems were multifold and urgent...
...cartridges, that might prove useful in any kind of a war anywhere on the face of the earth. No Production Boss can balance production and avoid shortages unless he persuades-or forces-the military strategists to adopt a specific, limited program calling for specific types of material. Thus far Nelson has lost practically every round with the Army & Navy, which in general still insist on building everything at once. And this fundamental error overstrains production from raw materials...