Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golfers, the 4.000,000 tennis players, and innumerable ball-bouncers, the grim reality of war was brought stunningly home last week. OPM ruled: no more golf, tennis, squash, hand-balls. Stricken sportsmen, brooding on the last bounce of the last ball, swamped stores (one sports shop sold 2,000 dozen golf balls by 11 a.m.). Other gamesters planned to take up games priorities could never affect: croquet, parchesi...
...OPM officials are optimistic over the likelihood of substitution, and engineers are already eying Ford's elaborate, automatic machines for making cylinder sleeves. Overnight these can be adapted, with no essential changes, to making 80,000 sleeve-like steel shell casings per day. The Army eyes the whole project with faint, traditional mistrust...
Rubber. This year the tire companies made 65,000,000 new tires, sold retreaders 30,000 tons of camelback for 8,000,000 retread jobs. For 1942, retreaders have set a goal of 20,000,000 jobs requiring 80,000 tons of camelback. OPM has promised allocation of enough rubber to satisfy all defense retread needs, but trucks and busses are likely to get theirs first...
...elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...
This startling fact was underscored last week when OPM materials chief William Batt told air-conditioning makers they could get top-rung priorities on all blast-furnace installations. In fact, steel companies will be urged to air-condition, can have RFC money to pay for the jobs. Reason: air-conditioned furnaces produce more iron (TIME, April...