Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OPM's Knudsen was clearly on its side. Said he: "What would we do with 30,000,000 tons more? That's too much for me. I'm not smart enough to pass on that. Let's keep our feet on the ground." Moreover, OPM recommended against Engineer Henry J. Kaiser's loan application for 1,500,000 tons of new capacity on the West Coast (TIME, April...
...could be relied on to turn out the work. Over 85% of the large contracts were let to 80 companies. Three companies (Du Pont, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors) willingly or unwillingly took 23% of the contracts, while most of the 184,244 U.S. manufacturing companies got none. Last February OPM set up the Defense Contract Service division to spread the defense load by encouraging the big firms to subcontract. For its head, OPM picked hard-hitting Robert Lee Mehornay, a onetime Army captain...
Eight new Douglas DC-3 transports were delivered to American Airlines and United Air Lines, with the blessing of OPM. Nine went to T.W.A., five to Eastern Air Lines earlier this year. Before Christmas, around 30 more transports will be prorated among the 17 U.S. airlines...
Early this month, when President Roosevelt requested planes for Lend-Lease use, OPM scooped 30 big transport planes from the fields, left the lines with about 360 planes-hardly enough to cope with the soaring traffic curve.* For the duration, the lines are resigned to being "frozen"-moderate schedule increases; passenger priorities if planes get too crowded; few new craft; few-if any-improved models...
...Even private owners of twin-engined Lock-heeds (including Tom Girdler) were asked by OPM to give up their "air yachts...