Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson, the man who put the prod in production...
Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley well knew that the Germans had bolstered their fortifications and had had time to mass their own guns. As in Normandy, it would take a coordinated attack, by all forces to make a break. Bradley knew that great results are produced only by great battles. This was to be the greatest battle the Americans had fought in Europe. They had superiority: two men to the Germans' one, four guns to one, five tanks to one, several hundred planes...
...governmental shakeup, Generalissimo Chiang launched a sweeping reform of China's war production. A new War Production Board, headed by slight, scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, was charged with coordinating all agencies dealing with production. From the U.S. came an economic mission, headed by ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson. Its job: to help Dr. Wong...
Britain, like the U.S.. usually awards its medals on the recommendations of superiors. Last week the War Office broke precedent, gave airborne Major General Richard Nelson Gale the D.S.O. on the recommendation of two subalterns (lieutenants). Explained the War Office: Gale jumped into a dangerous attack to replace a fallen colonel, won the written praise of the only two surviving officers. Hinted the War Office: the practice will not be encouraged...
...nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well-tailored Pat Hurley stopped off in Moscow to garner Premier Molotov's assurances that Russia has no designs on China, stopped off in Chungking to lecture Chiang Kai-shek on the urgent need to cooperate...