Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President abolished SPAB, gave Nelson, as head of the War Production Board, final authority-authority greater than any U.S. citizen except the President himself has ever had, greater than that wielded by sage old Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I production tsar. For the first time under the New Deal, a top man was given power to hire & fire without a Presidential...
...this unprecedented authority over the economy of the U.S., Nelson can wipe out existing businesses, start others, commandeer materials, seize plants. His orders take precedence over the orders of all Government departments. SPABsters, as members of the new War Production Board, are now only his advisers...
...Nelson went into conference with himself. Perhaps he prayed. He had reason to: the Truman committee's report brought in evidence of such frightful all-around bungling-some of it involving himself-as to make lesser men despair of democracy. By & large the report was sound and thorough, though its value was lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations...
...Donald Nelson knew better than Senator Truman about defense bungling. He had seen it from the start. He had worked valiantly against it some 18 hours a day for 18 months. Said he last week...
...knowing that it had also become, to a great extent, Don Nelson's war, hoped that their long-awaited Production Boss was as smart as he seemed...