Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January, the month when Donald Nelson's new War Production Board was set up, the Government cleared $11,652-000,000 in defense contracts-as much as in the four preceding months. The contracts, mostly for airplanes, tanks and guns, have not yet been translated into production; but production also increased in January. The Government actually spent $2,276,000,000 on arms-nearly $300,000,000 more than in December. To meet present production goals, by the end of the year the Government must.be spending more than $5,000,000,000 a month...
These two attempts should at least give M.G.M. a passing grade for effort. They tried, and the failed--horribly. But when it came to Nelson Eddy--the poor man's Great Stone Face--no one even tried to get rid of him; if you can think of an excuse for that, you belong in Hollywood yourself. The only time he's even passable is when, for some strange reason, he saunters around trying to look like an anemic Chaliapin; he's better then mainly because the more he looks like someone else, the less he looks like Nelson Eddy...
Changes. The Prime Minister promised to appoint a Minister of Production, corresponding to Donald Nelson of the U.S., and to give the Dominions voices in the high war councils...
Reform Jews got a new executive director last week for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. This job, equivalent to the top-paid post in U.S. Protestantism's Federal Council of Churches, went to slim, youthful-looking Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 41, of Cincinnati...
...reverse half-nelson and armlock gave heavyweight Frank French his first taste of defeat of the season Saturday as Bob Pickett pinned him in three minutes while the Freshman wrestlers were eking out a 17 to 11 victory over Governor Dummer Academy in the Indoor Athletic Building...