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There were no sensational changes in the personnel of WPB. Its division heads were all chosen from OPM and SPAB; some dated back to the old National Defense Advisory Commission. The great change was in function. OPM had failed in part because of its leaders' divided authority and lack of full responsibility. WPB, as set up by Nelson, was to be a straight-line organization where every man had a duty, every man had the authority he needed, every man's successes or failures could be gauged at a glance...
...mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved up to OPM's production chief...
Many a critic of OPM considered Bill Harrison too easygoing, too unimaginative to do a bang-up production job; and Nelson himself recently complained that Harrison was a disbeliever in conversion. But Nelson holds that Harrison was a victim of OPM's faulty direction, has faith that he will deliver the goods. Into Harrison's lap also falls the ticklish problem of subcontracting-with Financier Floyd B. Odium, who made the most recent unsuccessful attempt to solve it, moving to a nebulous post as "adviser...
...article "Business in 1941" [TIME, Jan. 5] is the most thought-provoking and incisive article on business and the war that I have read. The discussion of OPM is most interesting, particularly to an ex-OPMite, but the whole thing hangs together on a clear line of understanding without the usual poppycock...
Having had their business taken away from them by OPM's no-new-car order (TIME, Jan. 12), the 44,000 U.S. auto dealers last week were overwhelmed by universal solicitude. From all sides, new business opportunities and promises of help rained on them...