Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of history's biggest production line finished his first 60 days on the job this week. In his office in the Social Security Building, Donald Marr Nelson, Boss of the War Production Board, lifted his bland face from his desk, glanced at the hordes of advisers, callers, clerks streaming in & out, remarked: "This is a hell of a congregation I'm pastor...
Some things in Mr. Nelson's pastorate were still in a mess indeed. Robert R. Guthrie, chief of the textile, clothing & equipage division, resigned in a huff, let out a puff that hit front pages...
Like his chief, Franklin Roosevelt, Pastor Nelson had a vast disinclination to fire anyone. There were still other sour voices in the choir-loft, bickerings among the elders. There were few new faces in WPB; most of them had come right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge...
...first 60 days, Boss Nelson had shown indications that he could get tough...
...When Nelson took over, OPM's power section had been trying for six months to get power lines into a plant abuilding at Lake Catherine, Ark., which will turn out 65,000 tons of aluminum a year. Nelson told his man Cliff Hill to get it done. That afternoon the order went out to the Rural Electrification Administration, while private power men and Congressmen squawked...