Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Background of Confusion. Such control was the essence of the power of the old War Industries Board of World War I, which the Army hoped the President would duplicate back in 1940. Instead came a dreary series of compromises (the Defense Commission, OPM, SPAB), culminating in WPB itself. By that time the Army and Navy of necessity had acquired vast powers, not only over the ordering of war products (which has always been their function), but over the flow and scheduling of raw materials as well...
Moore got into ship-engine building after years as a successful West Coast distributor of machine tools and a short stretch spent in Washington as a $1-a-year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore...
President of famed Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (turret lathes) in Springfield, Vt., Ralph Flanders actually represents nobody but himself. His expert technical advice was much sought in Washington when he bossed OPM's machine-tool priorities division in 1941. He left when he found himself in conflict with bureaucrats, but his advice continued to be sought...
This time there was no fanfare. There were not even any new anagrams-as when NDAC became OPM, OPM became SPAB and SPAB became...
...head a technical mission to Brazil to help build up its industrial war machine, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, ex-Rural Electrification Administrator, ex-labor division consultant with OPM...