Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OPM approved the release of brass for lamps and lipstick holders, disapproved release of brass for religious medals that the Holy Name Society wanted to give Catholic soldiers. When the news seeped out last week, six tons of "high brass" were released for medals pronto...
From C.I.O. came charges that Hillman "with stealthy efforts" was trying to make a deal with A.F. of L., was perpetrating "intolerable conditions that have retarded the progress of this industry." Congressman Howard Worth Smith demanded that A.F. of L. and the labor division of OPM (Mr. Hillman) be indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Justice's trust-busting Thurman Wesley Arnold pawed the ground. The Truman Committee in the Senate, investigating the defense program, got ready to charge...
...Both OPM and OPA showed their teeth last week, for the first time got noncompliant businessmen up on charges...
...OPM's bad boy was a violator of priorities, a Chicagoan of undisclosed identity. Charge: he had obtained a "considerable quantity" of aluminum for defense use through preference ratings, had instead supplied it to old & good customers for non-defense purposes. After his day in court, behind closed doors, OPMites retired to weigh his degree of willfulness...
...weeks TIME'S Index has held within a 4½-point range. Car-loadings are still about 80,000 cars below the 1,000,000-car peak predicted for October. Auto production, some 30,000 units under 1940, is not even keeping pace with the quotas imposed by OPM. Even in the textile industry, fat with Army orders, output has declined sharply since June...