Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ushers include: Edward Ames, Harold D. Baker, Harrison T. Blaine, Bartlett W. Brown, John P. Bunker, Rolla D. Campbell, Winthrop L. Carter, Jr., Nelson J. Darling, Jr., Robert T. Davis, Robert C. Doyle, John K. Eberle, Gerald Eisner, Russell W. Ellis, J. Christopher Finegan...
Since U.S. propaganda is aimed at promoting friendship and tranquillity, while Axis propaganda seeks to spread hate and dissension. Nelson Rockefeller and his well-meaning and hard-working young men are at an immediate disadvantage. Whether in the long run the Nazi propaganda will backfire and U.S. propaganda produce sound results, no one could say last week. Most likely result was that Argentina. Brazil and Chile would soon sicken of all propaganda. Some two months ago good-natured Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil quipped to a U.S. visitor: "The next good-will mission that arrives in Rio, Brazil will...
...When Napoleon planned the invasion of Britain, he dreamed of just such a stripping as this, and sent his fleet as a decoy to the West Indies to try to accomplish it; but then only Nelson and the Mediterranean squadron entered the chase. With the Bismarck gone, the Germans still have her sister, the Tirpitz. If the German Navy, knowing what certain death it would be, nevertheless sent the Tirpitz out on a similar sweep, it might be a tipoff for invasion...
...stand on the firing line between U.S. business and inflation. They were members of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, the most price-conscious men in the U.S. Their convention this year was a remarkable get-together between Government's pricers and buyers-Knudsen, Henderson, Nelson, et al.-and those of industry...
Many a delegate wanted to know: how far would the Government's buying program, interfere with his own? OPM's speakers left them no doubt that business-as-usual was dead for the duration. Director of Purchases Donald M. Nelson set the U.S. goal at $35,000,000,000* of defense production a year, which meant a corresponding decrease in civilian production. The purchasing agents were urged to adapt their buying policies to a long defense pull, to seek substitutes for strategic materials, not to hog inventories, so that no manufacturer should be short of materials while another...