Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall ... try to appeal to the sound sense and the good will of all true Americans") and - adjourned. The Mediation Board could not deal with any strike until Madam Secretary Perkins gave the word ; and there was no word from Madam Perkins. Labor's man on OPM, Sidney Hillman, was Florida-bound, sick after a winter of worry and work. President Roosevelt was somewhere off the Florida coast. Labor's Perkins was junketing...
Fortnight ago, OPM's Priorities Division acknowledged the strain on aluminum and machine tools, put their customers on rations (TIME, March 10). Last week three more industries went under full priorities. Two-nickel and magnesium-were competitors of aluminum (nickel is an ingredient of stainless steel). The third was neoprene, the high-cost Du Pont synthetic which too many defense manufacturers prefer to rubber (for gaskets, hose...
...fitted for uniforms. First was zinc, of which the U. S. supply had dwindled to two days' worth. As a first step, last week trading was banned in zinc futures on the Commodity Exchange and producers were asked to earmark 5% of their April output for allotment by OPM...
Second was scrap, for which OPM set a price ceiling at $20 a ton. Third was lumber, which Price Commissioner Leon Henderson had already forced down below $25 a thousand board foot (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week, to avoid future dislocation, the Government talked of acquiring its own stock pile...
...OPM's only control up to last week had been through voluntary priorities (i.e., suppliers were asked but not ordered to follow Government preferences). To all defense materials except aluminum and machine tools, this halfway control (or none at all) still applied last week. But official pressure on the producers and fabricators of tungsten, zinc, stainless steel, nickel, copper, steadily increased, their control became less and less voluntary. Mandatory priorities were surely in the offing for a big segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before...