Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summary: G F Total Deheo, rf 7 1 15 Crotty, lf 9 2 20 Rosinus 0 0 0 Nelson, c 0 0 0 Everett 1 0 2 Sullivan, rg 0 0 0 Athas 0 4 4 Markham 0 0 0 Hymans, lg 3 1 7 Brademas 3 0 6 Total...
...manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed by WPB, Krug went with it. In 1944, he was commissioned a Navy lieutenant commander, served in Normandy and Italy, was home on leave when chosen to replace Donald Nelson as WPB chief. At war's end, Krug left the Government to try and make some money for his wife and two children, but came back last March after the firing of Harold Ickes as Harry Truman's youngest Cabinet member...
Changed Times. By the time the San Francisco Conference met in 1945, the line was changing. Nelson Rockefeller's immoderate success at cajoling Latin American delegates into a voting bloc gave rise to Soviet-American asperities. Just then three Soviet diplomats from Latin America paid Molotov a flying visit. It was soon clear what they had been told: Latin America's Commies soon rediscovered "American imperialism," began to line up an anti-American front-which could be useful when the Soviets bargained with the U.S. at the peace table. It led to strange friendships. Example: Argentina...
Temperatures skidded to 25° below at Lethbridge, 23° below at Medicine Hat, 34° below at Penhold, Alberta. Snow fell 5 ft. deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...
...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...