Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire OPM v. OPACS fight over how-much and in-what-way the production of automobiles should be cut down became futile this week when the shortage of copper became so acute that there would be none left for non-defense consumption...
...Three Motorcycles." The top organization, Office for Emergency Management, was aptly described by Washington News Columnist Richard F. Scholz as "President Roosevelt, Wayne Coy and three motorcycles." OPM, the great factory whose most famed product is bottlenecks and coordinators, was in almost mortal combat with OPACS-merely over method. OPM and Lend-Lease Administration were fighting fiercely over jurisdiction. OPM and the Army were scrapping about ordnance; the Army and Lend-Lease were at loggerheads over which should get the produced planes, tanks, guns, etc. OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense were at odds; the State Department wrestled with...
Jeremiahs had predicted it. Last week they turned out to be right. OPM officially admitted that almost half the world's steel capacity was not enough for the U.S. It admitted an 1,000,000-ton shortage for the current year. Accordingly the No.1 defense metal was slapped under 100% mandatory priorities...
Thus ended the long Battle of Steel between U.S. defense and production men. Last summer, shortage-predictors looked like crackpots; few but New Dealers were for expansion of steel capacity. In December, OPM's William Loren Batt predicted rationing if expansion did not take place. Not until June did OPM and the industry agree on a 10,000,000-ton expansion program. Said American Iron & Steel Institute's Walter Tower only last month: "There is no sound factual basis for expecting shortage of steel for any essential...
...Inventory accumulation beyond current needs is prohibited. OPM's ignorance of where there are excess supplies (see below) will at long last be corrected...