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...Britain would have to lean on its own productive plant for its supply of the sensational new engine. One reported reason for this cold shoulder was that British bigwigs in the U.S. did not want to complicate their purchasing with a new item. Another was that the services and OPM thought they had good enough engines now, better ones being made, still better ones in the works...
Robert E. McConnell, emergency-conscious chief of OPM's Conservation & Substitution Section, made a list of 16 important industrial raw materials, with the ratio of apparent civilian demands to available supply (after defense needs) at month's beginning...
These figures (from OPM statisticians) include all U.S. defense payments, including merchant marine and RFC loans. Considering the slow rate of increase in recent months, they are not very encouraging...
...businessmen, a year of rope-learning in the defense business had not proved encouraging either. Each of the two defense agencies with which they chiefly deal signalized the end of the fiscal year with an overdue crisis. OPM reorganized itself (see p. 30). OPACS met the first challenge to its price-fixing powers, prepared to battle for them in Congress...
Kept in the dynamite box by the Army and Navy for a month, a report to OPM by a committee of 25 top oilmen, released last week, told how the East might cope with Harold Ickes' threat of "gasless Sundays" (TIME, May 26). Chief conclusion: there is a shortage of tankers, which will make the shortage worst this winter, but it will be almost over by next summer. Meanwhile there are ways to alleviate...