Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the sober words of a man who weighs his words, a man who sees the job of armament as clearly as any man and clearer than most: Donald Marr Nelson, Director of the Division of Purchases for the Office of Production Management...
...that group" Nelson referred to the 0PM, where his job, as director of purchases, is to buy the materials for U. S. armament. No catalogue could measure his duties, but one example is enough: by June Donald Nelson will buy three quarters of a million dollars worth of food every day for the new U. S. Army...
...master of ceremonies, Professor Quiz, will be Nelson R. Gidding...
...commander-Cunningham. To it and the sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...
...meet this challenge, Sir Andrew Cunningham brings all the traditions of the British Navy-and no institution in the world has so many. Among them is the command of great words: like Nelson, Sir Andrew uses simple, direct, clear phrases, but phrases shot through with the humble thing which throughout the ages has inspired poets as good and as bad as Aeschylus and Felicia Dorothea Hemans. On his great job. Sir Andrew has said a round dozen of great words. His last signal to his ships referring to dive-bombers in Sicily said: "Italian or German, these pests must...