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...answer came from OPM. Then Knudsenhillman sent to Secretary Stimson a recommendation for eight new plants to lift production 600,000,000 lb. a year. In Arkansas, Washington, New York, Alabama, California, North Carolina RFC will finance them: they are to be privately operated-by what companies, OPM...
With the breath of war blowing hot on the nape of its neck, the Office of Production Management last week revised its organization. It had to. In the six months of its existence, OPM had become hopelessly complicated, endlessly tied up in red tape that grew around its acts like ragweed in a melon patch. Manufacturers seeking to get started on vital contracts had to fight their way through labyrinths of bureaucracy. For any broad-scale ruling they had to go to the purchasing division, then to production, then to priorities. The rulings had to be reconciled. In the process...
Weeks ago, knowing U.S. citizens tumbled to the realization that the job done by OPM in directing the course of national defense was not all it was cracked up to be. Last week OPM admitted the awful fact by announcing its own reorganization. Administration men privately told reporters that even this reorganized OPM was still on trial. If it does not do better with production now scheduled within 60 days, if its residual red tape continues to slow the production of planes, tanks, ships and guns, the whole setup will be scrapped. Something else will be tried, perhaps...
...Plan. To short-cut red tape, let manufacturers settle their problems in one office instead of three, OPM changed itself from a horizontal to a vertical organization. Under the new plan, effective within ten to 14 days, some 30 Commodity Sections will be established. Each will handle the problems of one commodity. Thus a manufacturer, setting out to make uniforms, will go to the clothing section. There he will find (if the plan works) most of the rulings he needs on the three Ps that lie between the drawing board and quantity output: purchasing, priorities and production...
That revision of OPM would speed its processes was at least a hopeful prospect...