Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs, might have to "freeze" war workers in their present jobs. But until the U.S. had a sensible wage policy, reducing inequalities from plant to plant and industry to industry, labor would never stand for "freezing." And McNutt had no power over wages. Nor did Production Boss Donald Nelson, though he had all the responsibility for factory output...
...Resourceful Henry Kaiser might use the chrome in California soil, tin from Nevada, but he did not convince WPB of his ability to get all his needed metals. Fact is that part of the Army's combat-plane program is already lagging for lack of raw materials. Donald Nelson promised Kaiser "plenty of action." if-a big "if"-it can be proved that the Kaiser dream will not cut into the combat-plane program...
...Washington quarters. But the problem of Jamaica is endemic throughout the chain of strategic U.S., British, French and Dutch islands guarding the approaches to the Panama Canal. In its more somber and involved aspects the crisis resembles that in India. The immediate problem is the lack of shipping, which Nelson Rockefeller hopes to solve by building Caribbean schooners. Basically the problem is that of a one-crop economy (primarily sugar; sugar and bananas in Jamaica). Emphasis on monoculture has kept the potentially self-sufficient islands dependent for food on outside imports. It has also throttled the urge toward participation...
Washington's present social lions are officers, Latin American diplomats, wartime bigwigs like Donald Nelson, Leon Henderson and Sumner Welles, who are showered with invitations but accept very few. Because busy men have to be caught on the run, socialites now hold late-afternoon cocktail parties and buffet suppers, where busy guests can pop in for a quick one, instead of formal parties. One of the most popular functions is an open-house buffet luncheon served every day by Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, widow of the late New York Congressman, in her mansion near the War and State Departments...
Matriarch of social Washington is Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, former Envoy to Norway, whose small parties are still so choice that even Donald Nelson accepts invitations to them. Highly prized also, particularly by socially minded newcomers to Washington, are the cozy little dinners given by "Princess Alice" Longworth...