Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectacular fashion ammunition plants were shut down all over the nation, at least one of them before a single pound of powder had been made. The cutbacks hit aluminum, magnesium, pocketed the nation here & there with jobless. And they stirred up the fracas of the year between WPBoss Don Nelson and his tough, big-jawed vice chairman, Charlie Wilson...
...False Armistice. The issue was simple: had the time come for the U.S. to begin to reconvert to peace? Eyeing the mammoth stockpiles for war and the progress of the Allied armies across France, WPBoss Nelson thought it had. Charlie Wilson did not think so. Reconversion won. And Charlie Wilson tacitly admitted that perhaps Don Nelson had been right. For he promptly reconverted himself back to General Electric, remarked that G.E.'s reconversion was "one hell...
From Trial & Error. The Chinese WPB takes advantage of the many trials & errors of the American war production system. By every device Nelson & Co. could conceive, the setup eliminates diffuse authority, parallel agencies, snafuing red tape, all other bureaucratic hindrances to efficient administration...
...Wong. American steel experts are in the field, trying to step up China's tiny steel industry (annual production: 10,000 tons), which operates at less than 20% capacity. Alcohol experts strive to increase the output of the country's main fuel. In Washington Don Nelson's big job was to get more U.S. aid for a great ally's industrial renaissance...
N.E.P. Don Nelson could report on another momentous decision in Chungking. A committee of the Generalissimo's National Defense Council, headed by scholarly Drs. Sun Fo and Wang Chung-hui, had outlined a "New Economic Policy" for postwar China...