Word: wpboss
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...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...
...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...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson finally announced the establishment of 24 industry committees, designed to make each industry's gears mesh with the war effort, picked 24 industry chiefs. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch and many other experts had urged this for nearly two years...
...Navy, but nothing was done until Pearl Harbor rocked Frank Knox. The two-ocean Navy, due for completion in 1944, was needed in 1942. Panting for construction speed, Knox created a new Office of Procurement and Material, put Admiral Robinson in charge. His powers were the naval equivalent of WPBoss Donald Nelson's. He could tell off any bureau chief...
...Gilbert Islands. And the great U.S. industrial machine hummed ever faster in its war of production. In Baltimore a test pilot took up the first bomber powered by a Ford-built motor. Americans, unbeatable at making things, were beginning to make the things they needed. The nation grimly heeded WPBoss Donald M. Nelson's statement that the "golden months" were gone, but that "ten silver months" were left...