Word: allocatees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the drastic effect of this action on U.S. consumers (see p. 13), the commandeering meant curtains for most of the 500 U.S. silk-hosiery manufacturers, their 97,000 employes. Another 78,000 workers in silk textile lines faced work curtailment. To mitigate the shock, OPM last week ordered...
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...
> Signed the ship-seizure bill that authorized the Government to take over and operate foreign ships laid up in U.S. ports (see p. 20). Immediately the Emergency Shipping Division of the Maritime Commission announced that it was ready to requisition 84 vessels, would allocate them "to services which will be...
Last week's report made such bad reading that even habitually sanguine Franklin Roosevelt could think of no comment beyond predicting general priorities on steel. Next day priorities came. OPM's Stettinius announced that he and OPACS's Leon Henderson would allocate 75% of steel production (the...
The British-American companies who refine Government-owned Netherlands East Indies oil finally renewed their contracts with Japan, following a, November agreement which raised Japanese purchases from a basis of 494,000 to 1,800,-ooo tons a year. In case of war the East Indies has the right to...