Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five years in the Government. Donald Marr Nelson resigned this week. In 1940, fresh from the management of Sears, Roebuck & Co., he symbolized the nation's first groping efforts toward war production when he became purchasing agent for the old National Defense Council. He stayed on through SPAB, OPM and WPB, spent his last year of Government service on special presidential missions. Now he was off for a rest, with a pat on the back from President Truman...
...Nelson's last mission was to set up a WPB in China. This work would go on, under direction of Nelson's assistant-young (34), Harvard-educated Edwin A. Locke Jr. China's WPB was now functioning smoothly; it was more streamlined and less hampered by red tape than Washington's WPB had ever been. It had brought Chinese industry and government together for the first time. It had taught Chinese industrialists much of Western know-how. In its own small way it would help shorten the stretch drive against Japan, and aid in Chinese post...
...balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...
...Latin Americans, keeping close to Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller, hoped to swing some small changes in Dumbarton Oaks. Big guns were Mexico's suave Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, Chile's Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez, and Brazil's Pedro Leāo Velloso. who brought along his imposing wife...
...which one horse surges ahead, then another, then another. But it was a race in which all the horses belonged to one stable - for the three armies hacking deepest into Germany, the U.S. Ninth, First and Third, all belonged to the 12th Army Group of quiet, brilliant General Omar Nelson Bradley...