Word: stettinius
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...placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy, as Ed Stettinius' late, great father, Edward R. Stettinius, did on a broader scale from shorts to siege guns in World...
Most active in drawing on businessmen was silver-haired Ed Stettinius, who chucked his $100,000 job as board chairman of United States Steel Corp. to take charge of the raw materials section of the commission. Included in his staff...
Onetime Yale Crewman Charles Edward Adams, chairman of Air Reduction Co., and of U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co. His job: Ed Stettinius' senior assistant...
...William S. Knudsen and E. R. Stettinius...
...pretty certain that there will be some action," said Leon Henderson, after the board conferred last week with Franklin Roosevelt. Preliminary action there was, and of a kind to please U. S. businessmen. From Mr. Stettinius, the President ordered a thorough overhaul of the complex, tape-bound Federal procurement setup. Franklin ("I'm the boss") Roosevelt eased Secretary of the Treasury Morgen: thau out of Mr. Knudsen's way, giving him a free hand to tackle his enormous task of upping aircraft and aircraft-engine production to the still astronomical figure of 50,000 a year. Also promised...