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Between Ships. The President had to find a new WPBoss-and quick. The man he laid hands on just happened to be in town, between ships. He was 230-03. Lieut. Commander Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, 36, who was WPB's able No. 3 man until he went into the Navy five months ago. Krug, fresh from Europe, was waiting for reassignment to sea duty when Franklin Roosevelt hurriedly summoned him to the White House...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson, a weak and weary pneumonia convalescent, won a big battle by telephone last week. Nelson had issued the first WPB directive permitting the resumption of civilian production. A majority of his lieutenants, backed solidly by the Army & Navy, had pigeonholed the order, in his absence (TIME, July...
...When WPBoss Donald Nelson gets back to his desk, perhaps this week, he faces a tougher fight than his successful bout with pneumonia. While he was abed his balky WPB co-workers had shelved what is probably the most important order Nelson had ever issued: an order that would begin the reconversion of U.S. war plants in an orderly...
...jawed, sandy-haired Charles E. Wilson, No. 2 WPBoss, last week pointedly asked President Roosevelt a question: when could he get back to his old job of running General Electric...
Crisis Talk. All three, WPBoss Donald Nelson, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson, averred that they were anxious about the war labor situation. Donald Nelson used such phrases as "desperately acute," "a great danger," "very grave," and "serious" to describe the manpower needs in the casting and foundry industries, lumber, pulpwood and textiles...