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...long record of muddling without muddling through, the Office of Production Management added a finally inglorious chapter last week. OPM sat down with management and labor to bring about the thing the U.S. needs most: immediate conversion of its automobile industry, greatest productive machine in the world, to all-out arms production. Little was accomplished...
...task should have been easy. All 200 men at the meeting-auto executives, labor leaders, OPM and other defense chiefs-had the same goal. Without conversion to munitions the auto industry was finished, because there was no more rubber for its peacetime cars to roll on. Without conversion the union was a union of unemployed. And without conversion the Government would have trouble getting all the matériel that it needs to beat the Axis...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt in a far-reaching revision of the nation's war effort, revealed tonight that he will centralize in Donald M. Nelson, key figure in OPM, final authority over procurement and production of all armaments...
...Before OPM last week, bike makers argued that the 40 lb. of steel in a bicycle could in many situations replace a 2,900-lb. Chevrolet. The British use bicycles mostly to go to work. Most U.S. bicycles (around 10,000,000) are owned for sport by boys and girls, but not all. As evidence of their usefulness, the manufacturers cited Philadelphia's bike-riding newsboys, who sold $103,000 worth of defense stamps one week, $130,000 worth in another...
Impressed with bicycling's possibilities in a new-earless U.S., OPM promised the industry a limited allocation of steel and rubber. The manufacturers in turn agreed that they could produce 1,000,000 bicycles in 1942 (1941 output: 1,800,000) and save 30,000 tons of steel. Method: make two models (male & female) instead of 35; limit them to 34 lb. (present average: 49 lb.); throw out spotlights, battery tanks, other gadgets...