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...OPM's priorities machinery was just getting oiled this week. It began to open offices throughout the country, train a field staff, hold meetings to explain itself to businessmen. It announced three weapons to enforce compliance with its orders: publicity, restriction of supplies, lawsuits. Manufacturers of peacetime goods did well to contemplate the growth. Leon Henderson, waiting for new legislation on the price front, turned his attention to civilian supply. First move: obtaining (from OPM, which administers all priorities) priority status for such essential civilian industries as transportation, communication, utilities, food processing, farm equipment, mining. That means that orders...
Some of these materials were already under priority control; those that were not soon will be. Same day, OPM's priorities division released a summary of its rulings to date...
...auto industry, just completing the second biggest year in its history, last week faced the fact that next year would be one of its toughest. In Washington, OPM officials and 56 top-drawer auto executives met behind closed doors for an overdue session of plain talk about the wartime role of the nation's greatest peacetime industry. Upshot: not many automobiles will be made in Detroit next year, but a lot more munitions. Bill Knudsen promised to triple the industry's present defense contracts...
...Chaos. Mr. Replogle's finger was pointed not so much at the automakers as at the indecision of the Government's handling of defense to date. It took the Army, the Navy and OPACS to stir OPM to action on autos. Although Detroit has complained bitterly about the recent rumors of a flat 50% cut in '42 production, no motormaker protested at last week's meeting. Reason: there was hope that chaos, at least, might be over. Detroit was to have an advisory say in how its own transition from automaking to munitions-making could best...
...voice was a igman industry committee, to be set up in accordance with the new methods of reorganized OPM (TIME, June 30). OPM asked for nominations, got eleven representing truck and automakers,* will get eight more representing parts makers. Warned OPM, "We don't want any stuffed shirts, or men who won't work like hell. We want the best...