Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson and Marriner S. Eccles...
...Sidney Hillman and Donald Nelson...
Trouble started when Army and Navy procurement men found civilians telling them, patriotically but confusedly, how to buy tanks and airplanes and armor plate. Here Donald Nelson was of enormous help. Of a ton of newspaper clippings gossiping about his deathly struggles with military buyers, not one is wholly true. They got along from the start, and what differences they had were settled before the press heard of them. Momentary flare-ups occur, say insiders, but Nelson and his men speak the same language as the military men, particularly since he has shown them how to buy quantities in slack...
...middle-readers were predominantly Nelson, judicial, greying Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, debonair, trigger-quick Under Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal. Patterson and Forrestal clung to the road's middle as desperately as if the road shoulders were mined...
Bulging Rio's hotels, together with hundreds of Argentines, thousands of upcountry Brazilians, are about 700 Norteamericanos (including Coca-Cola's James Aloysius Farley), more than carnaval has ever drawn before. For this Rio can thank Nelson Rockefeller in his mouth-filling capacity of Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. Coordinator Rockefeller has worked hard to sell the South and Central American carnivals to the U. S. (see cut), hopes for several times 700 U. S. visitors next year...