Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing was done until Pearl Harbor rocked Frank Knox. The two-ocean Navy, due for completion in 1944, was needed in 1942. Panting for construction speed, Knox created a new Office of Procurement and Material, put Admiral Robinson in charge. His powers were the naval equivalent of WPBoss Donald Nelson's. He could tell off any bureau chief...
...Robinson chums up with Donald Nelson, wangles materials with finesse. Along with the new berth he acquired the rank of vice admiral, highest ever held by a "staff "(technical) officer of the Navy. Nowadays he rarely has time for his hobby: gardening. He gets down to his office by 8 a.m., seldom leaves before...
...Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch. He began building ammunition plants for the British Purchasing Commission, switched to Army Ordnance. When he began, Searls knew nothing about ammunition except that it was supposed to explode. Now he knows so much that the Army refused to give him up to Nelson, insisted that he do both jobs...
...Unity. Since last summer all U.S. short-wavers have been shepherded by the Office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel William J. Donovan) and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Nelson Rockefeller). War put a strain on this rather informal system-a strain at first overcome by mutual hard work and good will (TIME, Jan. 26). By last week, however, formality was badly needed...
...Nelson Jarvie Darling...