Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a month, at Nelson's invitation, trim, grey-headed Dr. Luther Gulick, Federal trouble shooter, had been peering into WPB's innards. Dr. Gulick has already made recommendations: 1) to clarify authorities, sometimes so fuzzy now that industry branch chiefs are not sure whom they can fire; 2) reorganize the Production Requirements Plan ("Purp"), which after July 1 will finally be charged with the monstrous job of controlling all critical materials, from primary producer to factory...
Gulick's recommendations will probably be carried out within the next two weeks. Nelson, who always figured that his first job was to get industry converted in a hurry-with whatever makeshift machine he could put together-was ready to do some more tinkering to get his machine in high speed...
...back to industry after the war 14% of the excess profits collected from it now. The committee also let stand the 94% excess-profits levy denounced as "a danger to the full success of the war production program" (because it gives industry no incentive for greater production) by Donald Nelson, Under Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, and Admiral Land...
With demand soaring, Pacific Coast lumber production (almost half the total) has lagged behind 1941 every month this year, mainly for want of skilled and willing lumberjacks. Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
Madeleine F. Warren, Assistant Professor of Physiology; Wilfred W. Westerfeld, Associate in Biological Chemistry; John H. Dingle, Associate in Medicine; Charles A. Janeway, Associate in Medicine; Nathan B. Talbot, Associate in Pediatrics; Leslie Silverman, Associate in Industrial Hygiene; Joe V. Meigs, Clinical Professor of Gynaecology; Carl T. Nelson, Associate in Clinical Dentistry; David Weisberger, Associate in Clinical Dentistry...