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...clothes, 39? aprons, 25? socks? The dearth of these bargain-basement specials has graveled many a low-income shopper, and given many a housewife to wonder whether OPA is really succeeding in holding the line. This same question last week bothered Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson. He issued orders to WPBoss Don Nelson and OPA Boss Chester Bowles to increase supplies of these inexpensive soft goods...
...production climbed another high plateau. Happily, WPBoss Donald Nelson summed up October...
Finally Admiral Vickery stormed to the White House, demanded that Willie Gibbs walk the plank. According to one report, the President agreed. But WPBoss Donald Nelson rallied to Gibbs' side, even threatened to resign, and this forced a compromise...
...column's title: Here the Gavel Fell. Its motto: "Don't undersell your Congress." Her weekly reports ran 1,200 to 1,600 words, gave soldiers a brilliantly readable summary of the political week. When she wrote, early in May, that home-front journalists were predicting that WPBoss Donald Nelson might be on the way out, she added a gag making the rounds of Congressional cloakrooms: "Don't be too sure. An awful lot of the rubber we are short of went into the construction of Donald Nelson." When the House revised the Senate's anti...
...Others who take their exercise on horseback are Secretary of the Treasury Henry L. Morgenthau and Justice Robert H. Jackson. But the rest-men like War Mobilization Chief James F. Byrnes, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown and WPBoss Donald Nelson-take the easiest way. Like top-flight Army & Navy men, they have rediscovered walking...