Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodge, all Chrysler and G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac assembly lines stopped for the duration last week. Others will dribble along for another week or ten days. Chrysler figured 40,000 of its men would be temporarily idle, G.M. 120,000. But Conversion Tsar Ernest Kanzler thinks Detroit alone will have 600,000 war jobs by year...
...that time, big-league club owners were no longer interested in Hornsby. Insiders said it was because he played the horses-a practice frowned on by Tsar Landis. Said the forthright Rajah: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't read much nor go to the movies. I must have some relaxation." Disillusioned and declaring that managers must be "yes-men" to keep a job in the big leagues, the Rajah drifted back to the minors. When immortality came to him last week at 45, he was back where he started-in the Texas...
...first time ever the U.S. auto industry has a tsar: broad-shouldered, 6-ft., Ernest Carlton Kanzler, high-voltage president-on-leave of car-financing Universal Credit Corp. The scepter was handed to him by War Boss Don Nelson, and with it went the huge job of converting the auto industry to 100% war work...
...President abolished SPAB, gave Nelson, as head of the War Production Board, final authority-authority greater than any U.S. citizen except the President himself has ever had, greater than that wielded by sage old Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I production tsar. For the first time under the New Deal, a top man was given power to hire & fire without a Presidential...
...bottleneck had come uncorked with the departure of Winston Churchill for home, the President last week took the most important step in many a week by appointing a single war-production tsar, Donald M. Nelson. Letting loose a flow of energy, he also...