Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers hoped that this new breach in the levee, which has until now channeled the entire U.S. war effort through the narrow banks of the President's office, would be as wide and effective as the break which put Donald Nelson in charge of war production at home. By superseding the host of obscure agencies and purchasing commissions which have been handling aid to the Allies, the President's three new boards may be able to swell Lend-Lease to a torrent, send it roaring down to engulf the Axis...
...tires? Go by air! No, said the Government, putting airplane seats under priority quicker than you could say Donald Nelson...
...first time ever the U.S. auto industry has a tsar: broad-shouldered, 6-ft., Ernest Carlton Kanzler, high-voltage president-on-leave of car-financing Universal Credit Corp. The scepter was handed to him by War Boss Don Nelson, and with it went the huge job of converting the auto industry to 100% war work...
Both Washington and Detroit agreed Nelson had picked no mere throne-warmer. Kanzler started off as a Detroit lawyer in 1915, moved into the Ford orbit a year later when he and Edsel Ford courted (and later married) sisters. With ack-ack rapidity, Kanzler became Ford Motor Co. production manager, then director, then vice president. From Big Bill Knudsen (who then worked for Ford), he picked up production dope never taught in a law school. But Kanzler was always a lawyer, never a down-in-the-shop production man. So in 1926 he became executive vice president of Ford-controlled...
...Nelson's deputy, Kanzler has the power* to rip machine tools out of G.M., hand them to Ford; he can take brains and manpower from Packard, give them to Nash. Whether such pooling would be attempted was undecided this week. Detroit dopesters expected Kanzler to ring himself with specialists: Chrysler's fast-moving Eddie Hunt for tank production, Ford's burly Charles Sorensen for bombers, G.M.'s Ormond Hunt (no kin to Eddie) for ordnance work...