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Though the Nazi wave of war has flooded Norway, the Norwegian Legation in Washington is not submerged. In fact, the Legation is such a busy little island that last week it dedicated a new wing. On the Legation roof, while such distinguished guests as Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, OPM's Big Bill Knudsen, A.F. of L.'s Little Bill Green looked on, Crown Princess Martha raised a Norwegian flag, in a rich, clear soprano led the guests as they sang Norway's National Anthem...
...Russians fail, Lewis may still try to seize command of the C.I.O. to try to unite labor in a demand for a constructive domestic program, and to force through a place for labor at the defense program's top. (He is completely contemptuous of OPM's Sidney Hillman...
...OPM last week announced progress in U.S. defense: military aircraft production for the first six months of 1941 had increased 42% over the production of the preceding six months...
...Henderson, backed in principle by the President, feared another of the easygoing delays for which OPM is famous. His idea is that it is too late to worry about normalcy. So he issued an order which, if he can enforce it, will play hob in Detroit-which cannot make ends meet on 2,400,000 units a year. Henderson believes that the best way to conserve scarce materials is to take them from industries using the most. He figures a 50% auto cut (along with a 30-50% cut in refrigerators and washing machines ordered at the same time) would...
...weeks two drafts of an executive order which would end the OPACS-OPM wrangle by clarifying their jurisdiction have lain on President Roosevelt's desk. One draft gives OPACS full control over civilian supply. The other gives control to OPM, confines OPACS to the big job of watching prices. Unsigned, they have remained one of the many bottlenecks on the President's desk. Like many another of these bottlenecks, the OPM-OPACS jurisdictional feud would vanish if there were a single boss of defense...