Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole aviation industry was hopping mad; the Air Forces felt like a redheaded stepchild. The Army-Navy joint board had not yet seen fit to revamp its pre-Pearl Harbor priorities, except to move up replacements for lost ships. Production Boss Donald Nelson had hoped that the Army & Navy would settle this row without civilian interference. He could afford to wait a bit: by arbitrary allocation of materials, the airplane industry had not really been hurt...
...after Wayne Parrish's blast, Donald Nelson could wait no longer. He jumped all aircraft materials, all materials for antiaircraft guns & parts...
When Donald Nelson set up his War Production Board, he charted a planning board (his "thinking committee") to anticipate bottlenecks, keep production flowing, find better and faster ways to make arms. After a four-week search for the right men, he named...
...Nelson Jarvie Darling...
...abolished and in one month Nelson did all but one of the following...