Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Instead of appointing a new agency to handle his new power of requisitioning private property for defense (TIME, Oct. 27), President Roosevelt last week delegated the power to OPM. Six other defense agencies-Treasury, War, Navy, Agriculture, Maritime Commission and Economic Defense Board-can now initiate requisitioning. But OPM must approve all their moves. In cases of dispute over scarce materials OPM will play umpire, decide which agency needs them most...
Under Order No. i the Office of Production Management will approve Russian requests for machine tools, set delivery dates. To about 35 machine-tool plants have gone instructions to place these orders ahead of everything else, get them delivered on the dates specified. In this way OPM expects to allocate $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 worth of tools to U.S.S.R...
...OPM's request hurt even worse: Six-or seven-day operations mean sharply upped overtime costs. One possible solution: add men to the second shift; perhaps start a third shift...
Punched twice by Washington last week, U.S. lead producers thought both punches were below the belt. First Leon Henderson told them that lead prices should not go above the present 5.85? a lb. Then OPM asked them to operate their mines "six days a week and where possible seven...
...demand which this year will take 1,300 cars of their grit-enough for 39,000,000 chickens. Thanks to Claude Wickard's program for increased farm production, next year's demand looks even bigger. So the Davidsons, faced with the need for expansion, went to OPM and argued that they were in the defense business, too. OPM finally agreed...