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...OPM jubilantly announced that only one strike of "primary significance" was delaying the defense program: a walkout of 90 C.I.O. autoworkers at the Rausch Nut & Manufacturing Co. (nuts & bolts for airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE NATION: Last Week of Peace | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...hearings on the defense bill, OPM made a stab at guessing what U.S. industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: All Out Price | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...little later SPAB voted to investigate copper production, got no further than a bicker over the prerogatives of SPAB and OPM's copper section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: SPAB, OPM & Chaos | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...OPM's orders pass through a half-dozen hands before they emerge, are signed by each one. Result: no one knows what official has made the decision or who is responsible for carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: SPAB, OPM & Chaos | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Scrap-conscious OPM conservationists last week saved for defense the rusting skeleton of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") from a watery grave in Puget Sound. Scrap dealers had not been interested until OPM stirred them up. Now they figure they can salvage it at a. profit even under the $20-a-ton scrap ceiling. Result: addition of 3,500 tons to tne shrinking U.S. scrap-steel stockpile, enough to build 500 light tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Bridges, Book Ends & Blades | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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