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Seizure of Air Associates was the result of President Roosevelt's conviction that President F. Leroy Hill had flouted the National Mediation Board, OPM AND THE War Department, during months of senseless wrangling and hostilities. Mediation Board Chairman William H. Davis had negotiated a truce whose terms required C.I.O. to disperse several thousand picketers who patrolled the gates, required the company to reinstate immediately C.I.O. union workers (125 of them, said the union; only 51, said the company...
This conclusion could not be lightly laughed off. It was made in Aviation, top-flight technical magazine, by T. P. Wright, assistant chief of OPM's aircraft branch and onetime production expert of Curtiss-Wright Corp...
...access to unpublished facts. He also relied on his demonstrated ability to predict future production accurately. In January 1941, when U.S. manufacturers were producing slightly more than 1,000 planes a month, he laid out his production predictions for the next 18 months. In the nine months since then OPM has had to revise its own predictions several times, but T. P. Wright's practically agree with the figures of actual production...
...domestic needs & supply study on which Donald Nelson has been working for weeks. While Don Nelson's inventory study was still in the study stage, Colonel Lord's "globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than Venezuela's actual purchases...
...American system, if the country begins to lay plans at once." When the war is over, a majority of the Round Table favored 1) tapering off of war orders, with dismissal wages to aid reemployment; 2) a Government agency to supervise "economic demobilization," continuing as long as necessary OPM's and OPA's supply and price controls. Acting Bureau, of Labor Statistics Commissioner A. Ford Hinrichs described this agency's job as "priorities continued literally in reverse . . . favoring everything other than those [wartime] contracts." The Round Table also agreed with Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F. Palmer that...