Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Britain would have to lean on its own productive plant for its supply of the sensational new engine. One reported reason for this cold shoulder was that British bigwigs in the U.S. did not want to complicate their purchasing with a new item. Another was that the services and OPM thought they had good enough engines now, better ones being made, still better ones in the works...
...OPM's priorities machinery was just getting oiled this week. It began to open offices throughout the country, train a field staff, hold meetings to explain itself to businessmen. It announced three weapons to enforce compliance with its orders: publicity, restriction of supplies, lawsuits. Manufacturers of peacetime goods did well to contemplate the growth. Leon Henderson, waiting for new legislation on the price front, turned his attention to civilian supply. First move: obtaining (from OPM, which administers all priorities) priority status for such essential civilian industries as transportation, communication, utilities, food processing, farm equipment, mining. That means that orders...
Robert E. McConnell, emergency-conscious chief of OPM's Conservation & Substitution Section, made a list of 16 important industrial raw materials, with the ratio of apparent civilian demands to available supply (after defense needs) at month's beginning...
Some of these materials were already under priority control; those that were not soon will be. Same day, OPM's priorities division released a summary of its rulings to date...
Kept in the dynamite box by the Army and Navy for a month, a report to OPM by a committee of 25 top oilmen, released last week, told how the East might cope with Harold Ickes' threat of "gasless Sundays" (TIME, May 26). Chief conclusion: there is a shortage of tankers, which will make the shortage worst this winter, but it will be almost over by next summer. Meanwhile there are ways to alleviate...