Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson took the job believing that his grant of power was enough. He set about his job patiently, quietly...
Solution by Battle. Before Donald Nelson even knew he was in a fight, he had nearly lost it. He sent some of his top men over to the War Department as civilian advisers, to mesh WPB's production program with Army procurement. They did not stay civilians long. Instead of molding Army policy, Nelson's men were molded into well-tailored Army uniforms. General Somervell put the good men to work, boxed off the bad ones. In a matter of weeks, he was head man of production and Nelson had a row of empty desks...
Last month, while Nelson was realigning WPB to handle the new No. 1 problem of materials shortages, Brehon Somervell moved again. He drew up his own plan, making the Army boss of everything, leaving WPB a paper-shuffling agency. At last Donald Nelson realized that he was in a fight. He went to the White House; President Roosevelt vetoed the Somervell plan...
...General Somervell kept boring in. Immediately he suggested one of his own men-able Chairman Ferd Eberstadt of the Army & Navy Munitions Board-for one of the top new WPB jobs. Nelson turned down the suggestion, instead ordered the Munitions Board to move its civilian personnel into WPB quarters. There the fight rested this week...
Authority with Strings. Donald Nelson's grant of power had never been really enough to make him manager of the war effort. He came in after most of the production had been blueprinted, most of the nation's store of raw materials already earmarked for duty. Many of the powers a modern-day Bernard Baruch needs were spread through other agencies-Office of Defense Transportation, War Manpower Commission, Office of Price Administration, Food Control-over which he had no direct control, or even advisory powers. And the Army & Navy, retaining the right to make war contracts, could always...