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...OPM is scheduled to be replaced by a new super-super defense agency, when 1) the Lend-Lease Bill is passed, 2) the "tooling-up" period of defense is well along (TIME, Feb. 24). The superagency, known to wisecrackers as the PDQ, is to consist of four Cabinet members: State, War, Navy, Treasury. This setup would keep the defense and aid-to-Britain programs directly under the President, would permit straight-line production by the single-order system: Britain to the Treasury to Army and/or Navy to Britain, under State Department counsel, with Winant, Cohen & Harriman as London receivers...
Last week the New Dealer plan appeared to be well under way. Around OPM was fear and gloom; production was beginning; but politics was being produced faster than ordnance (see p. 14). OPMites could see a nightmare vision of a day when Knudsen would be merely a wandering figurehead of good will, visiting factories and making Rotary luncheon talks; when Sidney Hillman would be a memo-writing figurehead, representing labor conciliation...
Last week OPM acquired a new agency with one job: to get a hilltop perspective of the present and future, advise the U. S. how to avoid crooked paths and hopelessly blocked roads. Announced by OPM's production director, John David Biggers, was a nine-man agency to be called the Production Planning Board. Its function: centralized planning of the defense program, long-range planning for the sag that must inevitably come when the U. S. has more swords than plowshares...
Head of the new agency was a newcomer to OPM's staff of $1-a-yearlings who have patriotically left big jobs to help with the bigger job of U. S. defense. Yet no novice to wartime hurlyburly is PPB's chubby, good-natured Samuel Richard Fuller. Mr. Fuller, who looks like Cinemactor Eugene Pallette with spectacles, joined the Navy (at 37) in World War I, was soon working under Assistant Secretary Franklin Delano Roosevelt as boss of steel-buying for the Navy. After the war Commander Fuller went from steel to cotton, silk substitutes, today is president...
...fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins. Ostensibly appointed to give the Fullermen the benefit of his observations in Britain, he is also Franklin Roosevelt's outward sign of the board's inward grace and potency. PPB will be no bull-session board, in time may well supplant OPM as No.11 planning agency, keeping OPM busy doing the tasks PPB lays...