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...Washington, onetime Commercial Artist William B. Phillips of Office of Emergency Management's Information Division, with the aid of N. W. Ayer's Art Director Charles Coiner, had rounded up 24 of the top-drawer U.S. postermen, had already finished two nifty jobs for OPM. Adviser Coiner (who designed NRA's Blue Eagle) did the first one; the other was by Jean Carlu, famed one-armed French posterman, now in the U.S., whose mural blandishments on behalf of French railways were once widely known and chuckled at in France...
...Good Neighbor policy was sandwiched into OPM's priorities lists last week. To build a steel industry in Brazil, for which Export-Import Bank anted $20,000,000 (TIME, Oct. 7), OPM announced it would give priorities to orders Brazil must place in the U.S. for materials and machinery...
...committee on Latin-American trade and cultural relations. For months Rockefeller has told President Roosevelt that the U.S. would have to keep up its exports to Latin America-defense program or no-or take a back seat to the Axis. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles agreed. But OPM's Ed Stettinius and OPACS' Leon Henderson stood pat against any exports that would take materials away from defense or essential civilian needs. Now the Presidential nod has gone to Rockefeller (partly because a Nazi freighter recently slipped through the blockade, delivered an airplane and parts which Brazil...
Last week OPM's priorities division also...
Under the New Deal's silver-buying program, the U.S. has spent $1,325,000,000 since 1934 to accumulate about 42,000 tons of silver (besides the 46,800 tons monetized) which lie unused in vaults. Last week the National Academy of Sciences suggested that OPM put some of this expensive luxury to work for defense by substituting it for tin in solder. This would not affect the price of solder because a blend of 2½% silver and 97½% lead gives about the same results as the standard mixture of half tin and half lead...