Word: opm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...auto industry, just completing the second biggest year in its history, last week faced the fact that next year would be one of its toughest. In Washington, OPM officials and 56 top-drawer auto executives met behind closed doors for an overdue session of plain talk about the wartime role of the nation's greatest peacetime industry. Upshot: not many automobiles will be made in Detroit next year, but a lot more munitions. Bill Knudsen promised to triple the industry's present defense contracts...
...Chaos. Mr. Replogle's finger was pointed not so much at the automakers as at the indecision of the Government's handling of defense to date. It took the Army, the Navy and OPACS to stir OPM to action on autos. Although Detroit has complained bitterly about the recent rumors of a flat 50% cut in '42 production, no motormaker protested at last week's meeting. Reason: there was hope that chaos, at least, might be over. Detroit was to have an advisory say in how its own transition from automaking to munitions-making could best...
...voice was a igman industry committee, to be set up in accordance with the new methods of reorganized OPM (TIME, June 30). OPM asked for nominations, got eleven representing truck and automakers,* will get eight more representing parts makers. Warned OPM, "We don't want any stuffed shirts, or men who won't work like hell. We want the best...
Once approved by OPM, OPACS and the Department of Justice, the committee will spend all its time at the job, with no pay but lots of duties. Some of them: to tell the Government what kind of defense work each U.S. auto company can best handle; to transmit the Government's munitions plans and requirements to the industry; to allocate raw materials for both defense and automobile production. Opposite it, running things for the Government, will be an OPM section headed by stocky James S. Adams, a Colgate-Palmolive-Peet vice president who now works for John D. Diggers...
Some Hope. For all these headaches, Detroit was offered only one pill: munitions orders, some $4,000,000,000 worth. From that, no motormaker expected to make the kind of money he was used to. Yet OPM promised to solve one problem by dishing its defense orders out in bigger hunks. Most of Detroit's munitions work so far has been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which...