Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lambasted Sidney Hillman, his hated rival in C.I.O. and head of the labor division of OPM. "Mr. Hillman, of course," said Lewis, "is responsible for the fantastic procedure which has been followed. His attitude of vengeful and malignant opposition to the interests of the United Mine Workers is only equaled by the fury of his actions against the United Construction Workers* in the Currier Lumber case." As for calling off the strike-in his own brand of inflated English, Mr. Lewis told the President of the U.S. to go jump in the lake...
...American system, if the country begins to lay plans at once." When the war is over, a majority of the Round Table favored 1) tapering off of war orders, with dismissal wages to aid reemployment; 2) a Government agency to supervise "economic demobilization," continuing as long as necessary OPM's and OPA's supply and price controls. Acting Bureau, of Labor Statistics Commissioner A. Ford Hinrichs described this agency's job as "priorities continued literally in reverse . . . favoring everything other than those [wartime] contracts." The Round Table also agreed with Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F. Palmer that...
...OPM priorities director Donald M. Nelson ordered a mandatory curtailment by large commercial and industrial users in the "shortage" area, effective November 10 and called for immediate pooling of the output of 40 publicly and privately owned companies in 13 states...
...copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...jewelers arrived in Washington last week the day after Donald Nelson had given the New York Sales Executives Club some jolting facts about copper. For this month latest OPM estimates show 5,730 tons too little copper for defense and Lend-Lease alone. For 1942 they show a maximum supply of 1,650,000 tons (including a sanguine 600,000 tons of imports); defense and Lend-Lease needs of 1,050,000 tons; "essential civilian" needs of 250.000 tons. This left 350,000 tons for "other civilian" demand-which OPM estimated at 1,100,000 tons...