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Word: oem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expediter,'' Graham bowled through bottlenecks and red tape with highhanded ease, won kudos for his role in boosting high octane gas output and lending $8 billion in V-Loans to get defense plants humming. When he lacked the right to check on lagging gasoline procurement, he had OEM's Chief Wayne Coy put a slip of paper on the President's desk reading: "Look into high octane gas." F.D.R.'s initials turned it into a badge of authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Commerce to succeed Richard L. Bowditch. Owner of six wholesale groceries, a public warehouse and a 450-acre cattle farm near Roanoke, Va., Johnston has been an active member of the Chamber for 22 years and a business consultant to the RFC, the Navy, the OPA and the OEM. Johnston feels that there may be a slight increase in the number of small business failures, but he hopes that "we won't turn into a nation of economic hypochondriacs and go running to the Government for emergency injections all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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