Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wartime Recruit. Jim Nance, 50, a relative newcomer to the G.E. hierarchy, was picked by ex-President Charlie Wilson, who was impressed by Nance's work as a member of WPB's advisory board for industry. He was already a veteran in the electrical industry, had managed Frigidaire's commercial refrigeration department, bossed Zenith Radio's wartime production. Charlie Wilson liked his zip, enthusiasm and selling touch. He sent him to Chicago in 1946 as executive vice president of a G.E. subsidiary then called Edison General Appliance Co. The company's chief value...
...influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental Can, and General Foods. When World War II began, he was drafted as a dollar-a-year man, served with 0PM, and later with WPB, exercised his talent as body snatcher and also as a mediator between Donald Nelson and Charlie Wilson...
...Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss for WPB...
...different items (from miniature .06-gram light globes to 100-ton generator shafts) worth more than $1 billion, a talented industrial giant which could reach out and run the Hanford atomic works for the Government as well. During World War II, as the strong man of the WPB, he broke aircraft production bottlenecks and cleared the way for the 1944 record of 96,369 military planes. When he returned to G.E. after the war, he promptly set to raising its output by a staggering...
...sales of every product an integrated operation. World War II suddenly switched him from this huge job to a huger one-making G.E. into a war industry. And in the middle of that, Franklin Roosevelt asked him to come to Washington to work the bugs out of the WPB...