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...Office for Emergency Management (an alias for two men, Franklin Roosevelt and his "anonymous" assistant, William H. McReynolds) became the superbody of defense administration. Immediately under it is the Hopkins group, plus the War Cabinet. OEM's physical workshop was the Knudsen-Hillman OPM. The defense program's setup had been reshuffled once more-and, the U.S. hoped, for the last time. Something more than promises must be given Great Britain-and soon. Yet OPM's William Knudsen blandly told the Senate committee investigating defense: "I don't know [whether we could supply the whole world...
...first was the statistical meaning of an announcement of OPM's William Knudsen, late a motormaker himself, that each company in the nation's No. 1 consumer industry had agreed to cut 1942 production by one-fifth. The second came from an announcement by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of General Motors and top spokesman for his industry, that G.M. planned no new models for the 1943 season. Other manufacturers were expected to follow: the 1942 models that come out late this summer will be the standard U.S. cars for the duration...
...defense effort-these two developments were the biggest news since the defense program began. The calm with which Detroit took them was news worthy too as a sign of a new national understanding that defense is now a primary job. Detroit, in fact, was reconciled to rationing long before Knudsen spoke last week. Last month Sloan (whose company is the world's greatest consumer-goods producer) urged heavy excise taxes on all consumer goods whose full production conflicted with defense. Already the industry had made up its mind that 1942 models would have only superficial changes requiring a minimum...
...served in many a Government agency, State and national, was chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. To him belongs credit for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike, which Labor Department conciliators had given up, OPM's Hillman had fumbled and OPM's Knudsen and Navy's Knox had thrown into confusion that seemed, after two days of rioting, irreparable...
...called it the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply: OPACS. He established it parallel to and not under OPM, with its chief equal to Knudsen-hillman...