Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity man burst into a War Production Board meeting to give Donald Nelson the news that, just when Nelson had finally succeeded in killing all civilian hopes for rubber, the President had resurrected them. Unbelieving Donald Nelson called the White House, learned that the President had indeed uttered the roseate words. Quickly Nelson called a press conference of his own. There he tried, without flatly contradicting his chief, to puncture the fond new hope. But good news travels faster than bad; many a citizen still believed, at week's end, that his present well-worn tires were...
Suitor. In St. Albans, Vt., 80-year-old Nelson Coons got a suspended jail sentence for setting fire to a shed which he thought contained his sweetheart and a 75-year-old rival...
...Forth. The new network was not laid out to be a one-way street. At present only one regular broadcast originating outside of the U.S. is carried over CBS-a weekly Calling Pan America program-but the network hopes for more. Working mouth in microphone with CBS is Nelson Rockefeller's Office for the Coordination of Inter-American Affairs, which supplies programs and suggestions. For instance, Dr. Julio Barata, Brazilian radio chief (TIME, March 30), now makes a five-minute broadcast daily from Manhattan in which he comments on U.S. news for Brazilian listeners, calls a spade a spade...
...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...Angeles, Nelson J. Hansen, geologist, teamed up with Dr. Carl Omeron, dentist, to extract rubber from the red-flowered poinsettia...