Word: oem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press sections of the regular Departments and agencies were the big new ones. In the OEM press section were about 400 people. Others: the Office of Censorship (OC); the Office of Government Reports (OGR); the Office of Government Films (OGF); the Office of the Coordinator of Information (OCI), the Army & Navy press sections, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), and the White House's own Executive Office. The Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) is building a large press bureau...
...from the war program, James Ward, of Peano, Illinois, a collegian fresh from the campus, has been appointed Co-ordinator of college activities for the Division of Youth Activities of the Office of Civilian Defense, Gilbert Harrison and Jane Seaver, Co-Directors, announced today through the Regional Information Office, OEM, 17 Court Street, Boston. Mr. Ward, now working out of the Washington Headquarters of OCD, is former editor of "Northwestern Daily" at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois...
...dark midden of censorship OEM popped its head long enough for one brief, welcome word: the Republic P47 (Thunderbolt), fastest single-engined plane in the world, was about ready for quantity production...
...high speed of more than 400 m.p.h. in level flight, has done an incredible 680 in a dive.* Although it had been widely publicized, before Pearl Harbor, as a definitive U.S. answer to the need of high-altitude fighters, P-47's altitude performance was not mentioned by OEM, therefore could not be mentioned by the press. But OEM did give other details...
Unlike the Treasury Hour, first big network series in the Government's defense effort, Keep 'em Rolling is a sustaining show; Mutual donates the time and OEM pays the talent. But like the Treasury Hour it will engage for next to nothing a lot of high-priced names...