Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overlapping : e.g., on SPAB, Knudsen is under Nelson, although Knudsen has a vote and Nelson has not; while in OPM Nelson is under Knudsen, although Nelson's priorities should rule Knudsen's production program...
...tape: best recent news in defense was the quick start on conversion into tank production by farm-equipment manufacturers. This was the result of a mistake: the OPM official in charge forgot to take his conversion program to Knudsen's production division and get it okayed; mistakenly took it direct to the industry, which began converting for tank production immediately...
...that is an Army & Navy function. SPAB cannot finance projects -that is a Jesse Jones monopoly. SPAB cannot enforce its Latin American rulings-such policies are set by the Board of Economic Warfare and interfered with by the State Department. SPAB cannot touch production-that belongs to Knudsen in OPM. SPAB cannot handle conversion-that is the function of Floyd Odium's subcontracting division, and Odium cannot do anything either, because the Army & Navy let all contracts. Yet SPAB is supposedly the top defense board...
...hopeful independent union, the United Weldors,† Cutters and Helpers of America, called on the 200,000 welders in the U.S. to strike in protest. Promptly U.S. troops with fixed bayonets and armored cars rolled into the Bay area. OPM's Sidney Hillman, who declared that "no welder need belong to more than one union to work anywhere in any shipyard," sputtered from Washington: "Shocking act of disloyalty." A.F. of L. officials raised their hands in holy horror. Public opinion fell on the welders' heads like a ton of bricks. The strike call was a dud. Only...
Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation. Onetime holder of national tennis championships in municipal contests, bridge tournament partner of her famed husband (now with OPM in Washington), she said she was having the time of her life as a factory hand, was spending all her wages on defense bonds...