Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson had a polite but descriptive name for the war that was being fought last week in Washington. He called it "a failure to agree on assumptions." The assumptions were basic. In their extreme form, they were: an Army assumption that crisis shortages (radar, heavy trucks, bombs) are so great that this is no time to talk about reconversion; an assumption by one wing of WPB that war production is now well over the hump, and it is high time to begin retooling for peace...
Cutback Jitters. But Donald Nelson won a victory of his own. This week his plan to resume limited civilian output went into effect, even though opposed by the Army & Navy, and delayed five weeks by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes. It will mean only a trickle of goods, but it was a triumph, even though small, for his side of the Reconversion War. For Nelson, with many other officials, believes that war workers will stick to their high-pay jobs only if they are sure that peace will not come with a thud. And workers could...
...being fought on rigid lines. The Army, in effect, argued that production be kept up by stern talk, and by denying the implication of the victory headlines. WPBsters wanted to assure workers that the transition to peace would be smooth, to keep men at war work. On this line, Nelson and the Army were prepared to fight it out all summer...
...late July Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley briefed war correspondents and made them a promise. His pledge: give him three hours of good flying weather any forenoon and he would break out of Normandy. The pent power of his U.S. forces back of Saint-Lô, like a gigantic rocket, would be loosed into the chute carved by a 2,000-plane air bombardment. After the breakthrough-the General made no promises...
...over-economical of loss or what, the fact was that the Normandy operation was a stalemated disappointment. This week the weather was clearing again and German commentators predicted two fresh offensives, one near Caen and another at the west side of the front, where hard-hitting Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley has been moving up new U.S. divisions. The Allies said nothing at all, but this might...