Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Though men are wanted (for air-raid wardens, bomb squads, etc.) the big need is for able women. OCD estimated that it could use 500,000 women for home nursing, another 100,000 for nurses' aides. Some 300,000 women are wanted to take charge of OCD's nutrition program, 100,000 more to look after school lunches...
...would take a mort of heavy cloth to blackout New York City's 10,000,000 windows. Most big cities are so noisy that civilians cannot hear air-raid warnings. New York's Board of Estimate last week appropriated $25,000 to buy sirens. In the newspapers, OCD took full-page advertisements telling civilians what to do ("Keep cool. Stay at home. Put out lights.") if raiders come...
...observation posts. Only fault some Army officers had to find with the setup: it was operated by the Office of Civilian Defense instead of by the American Legion, which first tried it last winter. They prefer the Legion, on the grounds that it understands the military better than OCD operatives, has permanent headquarters in almost every town...
...their aluminum pots and pans, given to their Government six weeks ago, were still stacked high around courthouses and fire stations. To satisfy them, the Office of Civilian Defense announced that 6,700,000 Ib. of the estimated 14,000,000 collected had "moved toward defense production." By "moved," OCD meant allocated to specific smelters. Actually only a fraction of this amount had been taken away...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...