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...OPM's request hurt even worse: Six-or seven-day operations mean sharply upped overtime costs. One possible solution: add men to the second shift; perhaps start a third shift...
...Jobs 2 & 3, if successfully finished, would make these "vast quantities" look like peanuts. They were both under the supervision of Van Benschoten's boss, Ernest Tupper, OPM's tall, blond Coordinator of Industry & Commodity Research. Ernie Tupper is surveying 1) industry's inventories, and 2) those of the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. By last week, his industry surveys (86,000 firms were questioned) were almost all in, but untabulated. They had already turned up some interesting preliminary unbalances: pulp and paper mills with ten months' supply of lead; 59 printing-machinery plants with nine...
Figures or no figures, Don Nelson last week formulated his allocation technique: 1) OPM's "end-products" industry sections are to huddle with their industry representatives, develop a "requirements program" for each industry; 2) the "end-products" sections are then to discuss their needs with the OPM raw materials branches involved, scale them down if necessary, but arrive at some minimum figure; 3) OPM's Industrial Conservation Bureau is to advise on possible simplification, substitution etc.; 4) SPAB is to get the finished program, send it to Priorities for actual allocation of materials...
Punched twice by Washington last week, U.S. lead producers thought both punches were below the belt. First Leon Henderson told them that lead prices should not go above the present 5.85? a lb. Then OPM asked them to operate their mines "six days a week and where possible seven...
...demand which this year will take 1,300 cars of their grit-enough for 39,000,000 chickens. Thanks to Claude Wickard's program for increased farm production, next year's demand looks even bigger. So the Davidsons, faced with the need for expansion, went to OPM and argued that they were in the defense business, too. OPM finally agreed...