Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week WPB Chief Donald Nelson appointed tall, modest Arthur B. Newhall, in charge of rubber imports for WPB, as coordinator of the hodgepodge, over lapping rubber agencies in Washington. Though a coordinator was badly needed and coordination was Mr. Nelson's chief aim, the effect was a squelch for Mr. Jones who, as Federal Loan Administrator, had stretched out over the synthetic rubber program. In a showdown, Nelson's Newhall will have authority to tell Texas' Jones where...
...Donald Nelson had shaken off his gloom. A fortnight before he had been bogged down in his job's endless, exasperating detail. He had been worried about the bickering inside his War Production Board; for the first time he had seemed afraid that his work would never be done. Now, suddenly, from the accurate daily graphs on his desk, he could see that the production picture was taking powerful form...
...great, overmastering fact was that the goals were in sight, like land to shipwrecked men. Said Donald Nelson, holding his head high: "This is no time for easy optimism. . . . Yet I firmly believe that no American who sees the whole picture need give way to dark pessimism, either. . . . There is no insuperable obstacle...
Then WPBoss Donald Nelson began to sweep up the mess. He gave OPA full control over sugar, offered the Agriculture Department a lone hand in fats & oils. With these two trouble spots cleared away, and the man behind the plow working as never before, the nation's prospects in the Battle of Food were looking fine...
...dozens of Congressmen had become incensed over Kaltenborn's crusade. But by week's end the storm had blown over. Most people believed that Commentator Kaltenborn's intentions were all right. The misconceptions he had helped spread abroad were corrected, chiefly by Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson but also by careful newscasters, including Davis and Swing...