Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have been more spectacular to swing with both arms, hire & fire, tear down and rebuild. But Donald Nelson, the nation's new Production Boss, the man on whom the black blame or the golden praise for the U.S. war effort would now fall, did not work that way. Said Nelson: "We have got to make haste, but make it in the right direction...
Quietly working long hours in his plain office in Washington's grey stone Social Security Building, Donald Nelson made haste. On the wall still hung the motto he had put up there in the early days of the defense program: "A year from now, what will we wish we had done today?" He felt the pressure, but it did not affect his breathing...
...week's end Donald Nelson had mapped his organization, explained it at a press conference, issued his first orders, taken his first steps. The old Office of Production Management was tossed out the window; the new War Production Board was at work...
...present, the Administration has won a victory over the automobile industry. The powers given Donald Nelson to direct the defense production effort are also proof that the slack is being taken up. But industry is still far from a smiling partner to the deal. There is no reason why the profits of war industry should be investigated twenty years from now. And there are certainly many reasons to show that price administration needs a sterner commander than Herbert Hoover...
...bottleneck had come uncorked with the departure of Winston Churchill for home, the President last week took the most important step in many a week by appointing a single war-production tsar, Donald M. Nelson. Letting loose a flow of energy, he also...