Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make this setup a little blood had to be shed. Two weak spots in OPM were Production, headed by John David Biggers, and Priorities headed by Edward R. Stettinius. Both were given jobs in which they may have more success...
John Biggers, whose handling of political hedgehogs in OPM had caused enmities, became Mr. Stettinius' opposite on the London end of the telephone: Lend-Lease Administrator in England-although W. Averell Harriman and Mr. Hopkins will continue to have the basic responsibility for that...
...replace Nelson as OPM Purchasing Director the President and Sam Rosenman chose Douglas C. MacKeachie, 41, formerly New England manager for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., a scraggly-looking genial man who has already saved the Army millions of dollars while giving the soldiers better food...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...