More Drafts on Business

Most exacting private purchasing agent's job in the U. S. is that of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which buys some 50,000 different products from 6,000 manufacturers. Last week Sears' top merchandise man, Executive Vice President Donald Marr Nelson, got an even bigger buying assignment. From his berth as Treasury Procurement Chief, Buyer Nelson was promoted to be coordinating agent for all the U. S. Government's Defense purchases. His job: to spend the $9,000,000,000-plus Army-Navy appropriations and authorizations (on the books and in the works) on airplanes, ships, tanks, tools and munitions in collaboration with the Defense Advisory Commission. Doling out orders in advance of appropriations, Don Nelson will encourage manufacturers to map out orderly plant expansion.

Last week other businessmen took other Defense jobs in Washington:

Owen D. Young became temporary aide to Defense Advisory Commissioner Sidney Hillman. He will help train technicians through the National Youth Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps.

As consultants to Railroader Ralph Budd, Defense Advisory Commissioner in charge of transportation, went A. T. Wood, president of Lake Carriers Association; Edward Vincent Rodgers, president of American Trucking Association; Frederick C. Homer, assistant to the chairman of General Motors; Arthur Middleton Hill, president of National Association of Motor Bus Operators and Atlantic Greyhound Corp.

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