Word: wpboss
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...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...
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...
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...
...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...