Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task is greater than any mere multiplication of loaves of bread, or tanks or airplanes. Said Nelson...
...Buyer. Donald Nelson is 52, a big, mild man with shoulders like goal posts and an appetite for hard work, long hours and a pipe that smells like an unfrequented sulphur sink in Yellowstone Park. Son of a Hannibal, Mo. locomotive engineer (as a boy he saw Hannibal's first citizen, Mark Twain, explored Tom Sawyer's cave), Nelson worked his way through the University of Missouri waiting on tables, where he studied human nature by observing the reactions of students on whom he spilled hot gravy...
...Director of Purchases is a middle-roader. His views are his own. One day last fortnight, impatient of connivance, disgusted with the struggle for power in Washington, Donald Nelson announced his resignation as of May 1. Few days later he turned up at the White House. Last week the OPM consolidated control of purchases under him, increasing his direct power over all buying and giving him absolute power over all purchases of $500,000 or more. No more resignation talk was heard; if Nelson leaves on May 1, the reason will be that his job as buyer is substantially over...
...Nelson's eminent value to U. S. defense has been that he began with a clear view of the size of the problem, partly out of his own experience, partly because he has a talent for clarity. He is also as honest as only a wise man can be: he spent his youth being kicked out of copy writers' offices in Sears, Roebuck, fighting for exact and truthful description of all merchandise. And because truth is beauty, even in lawnmowers, Sears catalogues have always read well...
Franklin Roosevelt began the defense program in the belief that the abnormal defense effort could be superimposed lightly on the normal economy. Nelson disagreed from the beginning: he saw the program as a basic resurgence and reconstruction of the entire U. ,S. economy. He could see this clearly because he knew what would happen to U. S. business when 5,000,000 more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate...