Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great creative achievement nor a reputation as a man of ideas. Ed Stettinius' record, indeed, in the early defense-production days, was so badly spotted that he was kicked upstairs to the check-signing job as Lend-Lease Administrator, (TIME, March 10, 1941, et seq.). Behind him, in OPM, he left 18,500 applications for priorities unacted on. But he has since impressed many with his careful administration of Lend-Lease...
...Tape. To handle contract terminations, the Army now has dapper, red-tape-hating Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning. AI Browning left his $40,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...
Back in Portland, she picked a site for her steel plant, flew to Washington, successfully besieged Federal officials for defense contracts. White-haired, handsome Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (then director of priorities for OPM) chortled: "Say, she's about three jumps ahead...
Product Tons asked by OPM-WPB Contracted for by Jones...
...Carey spoke out of plenty of experience. Born in Philadelphia, he worked his way up swiftly from a job as laboratory technician to the presidency of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. In 1941 he became a labor member of the Production Planning Board of OPM, in the period when the Communist Party still called the war another "imperialist venture." Largely as a result of Communist opposition, he was defeated for re-election as president of the United Electrical workers in the 1941 convention...