Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seizure of Air Associates was the result of President Roosevelt's conviction that President F. Leroy Hill had flouted the National Mediation Board, OPM AND THE War Department, during months of senseless wrangling and hostilities. Mediation Board Chairman William H. Davis had negotiated a truce whose terms required C.I.O. to disperse several thousand picketers who patrolled the gates, required the company to reinstate immediately C.I.O. union workers (125 of them, said the union; only 51, said the company...
This conclusion could not be lightly laughed off. It was made in Aviation, top-flight technical magazine, by T. P. Wright, assistant chief of OPM's aircraft branch and onetime production expert of Curtiss-Wright Corp...
...access to unpublished facts. He also relied on his demonstrated ability to predict future production accurately. In January 1941, when U.S. manufacturers were producing slightly more than 1,000 planes a month, he laid out his production predictions for the next 18 months. In the nine months since then OPM has had to revise its own predictions several times, but T. P. Wright's practically agree with the figures of actual production...
...domestic needs & supply study on which Donald Nelson has been working for weeks. While Don Nelson's inventory study was still in the study stage, Colonel Lord's "globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than Venezuela's actual purchases...
...does not expect OPM to O.K. all of Venezuela's needs without a battle. First big fight ahead will concern whether EDB can get a blanket approval, or will have to haggle over every item. If Colonel Lord wins that battle it will be a precedent for deals with the other 19 republics. His strongest arguments: 1) these are minimum needs, for which the Latin American countries are willing and eager to pay; 2) if they are not granted, in too many cases the war-straitened economies of these nations may collapse; 3) hemisphere solidarity is worth...