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...side was stolid, peaceable WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson, who holds the big civilian job of the war. On the other was slim, stern, impatient Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who runs the Army's biggest show as Chief of the Services of Supply. They fought without personal rancor but with no holds barred, to determine whether Army or civilians should have last say on U.S. war production...
...that gloomy expectation, WPBoss Donald Nelson last week named a five-man board to head the $150,000,000 Smaller War Plants Corp., told them to get these little businessmen out of the mire...
...plea to WPBoss Donald Nelson was for steel and stainless steel to build new dehydration plants all over the U.S. near supplies of milk, eggs, vegetables, meat. Two years ago seven firms processed most of the nation's five-million-pound annual production of dried vegetables. Now U.S. plants can produce each year 15 million pounds of dried vegetables, 285 million pounds of dried eggs, more than 170 million pounds of dry skim milk, eight million pounds of waterless soup, unmeasured amounts of citrus concentrate. There are 82 egg-drying plants, mostly in the Midwest and Southwest...
...sinkings, oil reserves on the Eastern Seaboard dropped 2,000,000 bbl. a week. Mr. Ickes started digging up and relocating old lines, using second-hand pipe to improve a vastly inadequate system. In May he went to WPB with another plea for steel allocations. There were conferences. WPBoss Donald Nelson emerged from lunch at the White House to declare with finality: "The pipeline is out unless you want to give up planes and tanks." But not so many laughed at Ickes now—he had advocated building the line in the days before the situation was critical...
This standardization was long expected and much needed. Details were worked out by owlish WPBoss Donald Nelson and aristocratic, mustachioed Captain Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, who will probably head a permanent Joint Production Board...