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...Named William Averell Harriman as "expediter" of aid-to-Britain in the U. S. Embassy in London. Glossy, youngish (49) Expediter Harriman until last week was OPM Materials Chief. His job: to handle the receiving end of aid-to-Britain...
Crippled by strikes were three International Harvester plants, paralyzed was Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee. The Office of Production Management had announced, week before, that the Allis-Chalmers dispute was good as settled. OPM's Knudsenhillman had summoned management and union leaders to Washington and talked gruffly, but no sooner were the disputants out of sight than they were at it again. Was OPM muscle more mush than gristle? It began to look...
William Knudsen, half of OPM's two-headed boss, was nevertheless undisturbed. Appearing as a witness before the Judiciary Committee, he said: "We thought that we had that one settled . . . but they thought up another one on the way home. . . . If we could get across to labor and industry how vital this program is to our future . . . then I don't think petty disputes would stop this program." Day later his fellow director of OPM, Sidney Hillman, echoed him: "Cooperation is the answer to labor troubles...
...House Judiciary Committee was concerned, OPM's answer was not the right answer. Said Chairman Hatton Sumners, Nestor of the House: "We here in Congress are under pressure from many sources to act in this situation, because we represent the whole people. If we don't act we may not come back here...
Hacking through the tangled jungle of purchasing, priorities and production, U. S. defense workers, from OPM down to field buyers, see plenty of trees, fallen trunks, clogged footpaths. Great danger to defense and to the future economy of the U. S. is that they are too busy with the trees to see the forest. And inevitably they cannot see beyond into the economic swamps and highlands that lie ahead, after the U. S. has passed through World War II's overshadowing emergency...