Word: ocdirector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadaverous James M. ("Chink") Landis, on leave of absence as Dean of Harvard's Law School, ex-Chairman of SEC, ex-member of the Federal Trade Commission, now finally became ex-OCDirector (TIME, Aug. 16). Translated into Iraqi, his new title should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million...
Some of the OCDirector's statistics: national enrollment of volunteers totals more than 10,000,000; an initial lot of 5,000,000 gas masks will be manufactured; presently facilities will permit the making of 2,500,000 masks a month. Procurement directives have been issued to the Quartermaster General for 100,000 sets of firemen's turnout coats and trousers, 108,000 pairs of rubber boots, 400,000 more helmets. The Surgeon General has been asked to buy medical supplies in millions of units; more than 200,000 beds and cots...
...Said OCDirector James M. Landis: No plans have been made to equip the whole U.S. urban population with masks, as has been done in Britain, "until the present frontiers change." And the whole foul problem hung in delicate balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces...
...crowd on the Mall in Washington got a demonstration of defense equipment from the top: OCDirector James M. Landis, who crouched behind a protective shield, played a stream of water on what might have been an incendiary...
...OCDirector James M. Landis set up the pins again as if nothing had happened. No Federal cash, he pointed out, was being spent on the bowling project. Oh, no? said the Senator, whizzing one down for a strike; well, what about those red-white-&-blue posters being turned out by the Government Printing Office, urging U.S. citizens to "keep them rolling, hit the headpin with Uncle Sam?" Director Landis left the pins lying, retired to think that one over...