Word: ocr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Mr. OCR's new boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that...
...Office of Civilian Requirements was talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep the lid on tight until it becomes certain that renewed civilian manufactures will not interfere with the invasion of Europe...
...reason electric iron production is to be resumed: an OCR survey turned up only 14 new irons for sale throughout the U. S. A later survey found only...
...OCR borrowed enough to ease the civilian shortage, will pay back the yardage from its own allotment. In cases in which the Army has no such surplus OCR will borrow plant output, turn over to the Army OCR's allotment of output later...
...materials are only one part of the problem. Another is manpower. Ideally, civilian articles should be turned out in plants too small for efficient war work. But thousands of such plants have locked their doors, unable to compete with high wages in big war plants. OCR has no power to reopen them...