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Perplexed and agitated, people simply did not yet believe that lack of rubber made nationwide gas rationing a necessity. WPBoss Donald Nelson told them so for the umpteenth time. But up rose Oilman Alfred M. Landon to say: "It is not yet definite whether it is rubber or gasoline the Administration is trying to save...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson set up a Food Requirements Committee, put the energetic, ambitious Wickard in charge, gave a nine-man board his blessing and fiat to assess civilian, military and foreign food needs and to control crop plantings to meet those requirements. Nelson cagily kept two checks & balances: as head of the vast production-supply agency, he will O.K. the committee's moves; food-rationing powers remain in the hands of OPA's Henderson...
...Supported by President Roosevelt, WPBoss Donald Nelson and Administration leaders, Green & Murray made it plain that they would wage a last-ditch fight for time-and-a-half wages for overtime (more than 40 hours a week) for all war-plant workers...
...Then WPBoss Donald Nelson began to sweep up the mess. He gave OPA full control over sugar, offered the Agriculture Department a lone hand in fats & oils. With these two trouble spots cleared away, and the man behind the plow working as never before, the nation's prospects in the Battle of Food were looking fine...
...Suspicion blighted an innocent idea of WPBoss Donald Nelson. To stimulate production, Nelson decided to experiment in setting up joint labor-management plant committees, selected a few "guinea pig" plants to try it out. By mistake the plan was prematurely given full-blown national publicity. Newspapers, management, labor ran off in all directions at once, yelling bloody murder. The New York Times quoted General Electric's Vice President William R. Burrows as calling them "speed-up committees," likened them to the Murray Industrial Councils plan to give labor a voice in management. To labor leaders, "speed-up" was anathema...