Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks before, Knudsenhillman, OPM's doubleheaded boss, had tried and signally failed to untangle the Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, March 3). Knudsenhillman took another deep breath, summoned Bethlehem spokesmen and union heads to Washington. While striking workers fought with Buffalo police, William Knudsen and Sidney Hillman labored for peace...
Near midnight, Knudsenhillman called newsmen to Knudsen's office, in weary triumph announced the terms of a truce. The union's first two demands would be met. As for an election, OPM and NLRB would explore the possibilities. Heavy with fatigue, arm-in-arm, Knudsenhillman shuffled home...
...Distressed." Knudsenhillman still had troubles to worry about. Scarcely had OPM mopped its brow when word came that a fourth International Harvester plant, the big Chicago McCormick Works, had shut down. And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder...
...Knudsenhillman hoped was that the U. S. would keep its shirt on. Breathed the doubleheaded boss of OPM: "We are not distressed by the situation. There is nothing serious. What we are doing is working out, and working out well...
...Mandatory priorities" was OPM's phrase for this control. Manufacturer Reeves, many another in his spot understood precisely what the phrase meant. For him, it meant that his aluminum supplier (Alcoa) now had to send its order books to Washington once a month. Somebody in OPM would carefully scan those books, allot to each would-be buyer one of a series of preference ratings. If Mr. Reeves by some miracle were rated AA, his aluminum would be shipped posthaste. But top ratings were reserved for such MUST customers as aircraft manufacturers. Other ratings ran all the way down...