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Delay, Confusion. Despite OPM's failure, the auto industry would be converted somehow. Management, labor, the whole U.S. were determined on that. But no one could say how much time had been lost by last week's indecision and wrangling...
Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "[Management and labor] find the procurement agencies unready. They find the OPM without a plan. What is more, they find no one with authority who knows what he wants and means...
...Roosevelt herself let fly some old tomatoes and dead cats at her husband's OPM (see p. 10). The occasion: a meeting of Extension Service and 4-H Club directors in Washington...
...months ago, said Eleanor Roosevelt indignantly, she had seen that conversion of the automobile industry would throw thousands of people out of work in Detroit. She went to Messrs. Knudsen & Hillman and urged that OPM start training autoworkers as workers on airplane parts. Said she: "Mr. Knudsen looked at me like a great big benevolent bear as if to say, 'Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, don't let's get excited...
...machine makers next month will get 50% less iron and steel than last year, 75% less zinc. > Vacuum-cleaner production for the first quarter will be cut 25-40%. > Electric-light-bulb output will be cut to 1940 volume, about 20% under 1941. Purpose : to save brass and tungsten. > OPM, in a precedent-setting move, ordered all sulphite pulp producers to set aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown Co.) who are too busy with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received...