Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army had learned by experience: the way to subdue Sewell Avery was by envelopment, not frontal attack. In Chicago last week, Major General Joseph Wilson Byron politely stepped up to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s efficient receptionist Helen Love, asked to see Ward's stubborn $100,000-a-year president Sewell Lee Avery. Over an interoffice phone, she conveyed General Byron's message. It was: the Army's here agin...
...could say whether Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser was doing more than Planebuilder Donald Douglas or G.M.'s Charles E. Wilson or Big Steel's Ben Fairless. All together, they had sweated and strained to get war production to its peak and keep it there. The production lines spewed out so many tanks, planes and materiel of all kinds that, by midyear, the problem was considered no longer one of production but of cutbacks...
...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...
...first chemist ever to head Standard, plainspeaking, heavy-set Bob Wilson is the son of a college professor (College of Wooster, Ohio). He left an associate professorship at M.I.T. in 1922 to become assistant director of S.O.I.'s research department. In his research days he developed refining processes on which he holds 90 patents, including one on Indiana's widely advertised oil, Iso-Vis. Standard has cashed in on these and other processes Wilson had a hand in finding. Wilson has cashed in too. His salary of $60,000 a year, as president of Pan American Petroleum...