Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ostensibly, both men were appointed by the services and will be paid by the services, but all Washington knew that they were Nelson men. Haters of red tape, all-out expansionists and good cussers, they carried short lengths of lead pipe in their hip pockets, for use if the Army & Navy clung too stubbornly to old practices...
...meantime Nelson continued to knock the frosting off the U.S. economy. He stopped production of Christmas-tree and advertising-light bulbs, of brass eyelets for shoes, ordered a 50% cut in tin cans for beer, coffee, tobacco, oil, dog food. As its first move into international problems, WPB allocated 4% of rayon production to Latin America...
Most important, in WPB's second week, was a step which went almost unnoticed outside its own offices. On Nelson's desk each morning bald Statistician Stacy May began to place a fat progress report: day-by-day, company-by-company deliveries of armaments and armament parts stacked against the quotas. In OPM, a lazy or incompetent chief could sit motionless at his desk for months without having anyone the wiser. Under Nelson's WPB, any failures should show up at once in the morning report on his desk...
...Montgomery Ward vice president, Folsom was editing Montgomery Ward's catalog when Donald Nelson was editing Sears, Roebuck...
Ernest Kanzler, onetime Ford production chief, whom Donald Nelson appointed to see to it that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...