Word: opm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With more jobs as slick as Carlu's, OEM's poster outfit may become a central art bureau working for all defense agencies. Besides the OPM assignment, it is doing jobs for the Agriculture and Interior Departments and the Civil Service Commission. Proud of its products, it pays artists $250 for big color posters. Trade fee for such work would...
...most wasteful nation in the world began to mend its ways this week. All over the U.S., housewives dug into closets, came up with old aluminum pots & pans for defense.* OPM hoped the drive would turn up 15-20,000,000 lb. of scrap aluminum which could either be converted directly into defense products or used to replace virgin metal which would then be freed for aircraft production. This is the aluminum equivalent of some 4,000 fighter planes or 740 big bombers. The scrap will be sold to smelters through the Treasury Procurement Division. Money from the sale will...
Behind the drive was the big, lumbering figure of Robert Earll McConnell, an OPM dollar-a-year man who is both penny and pound wise. McConnell began organizing a conservation & substitution section last March, has since made it one of OPM's most active and successful branches. His staff sits in on all commodity and industry conferences with one idea in mind: to keep any of the nation's resources from going down the drain...
...long-smoldering feud between Bill Knudsen's OPM and Leon Henderson's OPACS finally exploded last week-right under the nation's automobile manufacturers. The explosion was an order issued by Henderson: the industry would have to cut automobile and light truck production 50%, to about 2,400,000 units in the new model year. It could make 600,000 units a month in August, September and October. After that the limit was 200,000 a month. Only assembly lines for heavy trucks badly needed for transportation and Army could keep going top speed (600,000 last...
This made evident that Henderson wanted a showdown with OPM over who was really boss of civilian supply. Henderson thinks that he is, and that OPM is trying to muscle in. OPM, whose priorities powers are the No. 1 weapon for regulating distribution, thinks that he is merely its adviser. After Knudsen told motor-makers early this month that materials shortages would cut heavily into their 1942 production (TIME, July 14), OPM and its automobile industry committee sat down to work out details of the reduction themselves. They and the industry expected the cut would amount to at least...