Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Elliott in OPM...
Also, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, will be here only part time since he will be working in his office as Special Consultant in the Division of Industrial Materials in the OPM...
Started this week by OPM's labor division was a survey of five cities where the effect of priorities was closest at hand and likely to hurt the most: Meadville, Pa. (zippers); Mansfield, Ohio (refrigerators and electrical appliances) ; Evansville, Ind. (refrigerators and automotive appliances) ; Quincy, Ill. (stove foundries); Newton, Iowa (washing machines). After the survey, OPM hoped to give these areas new defense work*- using the power it obtained last month to write compulsory subcontracting, plus special treatment for blighted communities, into Army & Navy contracts. Question was whether enough could be done, or whether it could be done...
Argument for Priorities. Last month William C. Arthur, Talon's president since 1939, went to Washington to present the zipper industry's plea for survival to OPM-OPACS. Because slide fasteners have tiny parts with precision fittings, the industry had to use an easily workable copper base. Talon made its fasteners of either nickel silver (65% copper, 18% nickel, 17% zinc) or gilding metal (85% copper, 15% zinc). But to operate at the last twelve months' rate (440,000,000 fasteners), the industry needed just 6,300 tons of copper a year (.6% of U.S. production...
...make it more worth the junkman's while, Block's campaign is also aimed at scrap metal and rags. Last week OPM's Conservation Division called 80 scrap dealers to Washington, told them OPM would soon start a national campaign to increase their collection of all kinds of scrap...