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...Director of Purchases is a middle-roader. His views are his own. One day last fortnight, impatient of connivance, disgusted with the struggle for power in Washington, Donald Nelson announced his resignation as of May 1. Few days later he turned up at the White House. Last week the OPM consolidated control of purchases under him, increasing his direct power over all buying and giving him absolute power over all purchases of $500,000 or more. No more resignation talk was heard; if Nelson leaves on May 1, the reason will be that his job as buyer is substantially over...
...OPM was sired by Franklin Roosevelt out of confusion, which was the stable-name of the NDAC. The President had been greatly responsible for the confusion, although some of it was inherent in the size of the task and the nature of the problem. NDAC was a six-man, one-woman board charged with duties to buy, control, employ, arbitrate, stabilize, protect and manage national rearmament without ruining the country now or later. OPM has a simpler task: to produce arms. It has a simple creed: God help anyone who gets in the way of U. S. defense...
...headed boss of defense production, OPM's Knudsenhillman, showed his muscle last week in breaking up a labor rumpus. At the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee, management and employe had rolled and wrestled for more than three weeks while work on $45,000,000 worth of Army and Navy contracts for turbines, shafts, pumps, gun parts ceased. Patience exhausted, Knudsenhillman sent identical telegrams to Milwaukee, urgently "requesting" spokesmen for both sides to hurry to Washington. There defense officials threw them at U. S. Conciliation Service Director John R. Steelman. At week's end Knudsenhillman, perspiring and triumphant, announced...
...fight roared up to its hottest as the OPM was set up. The U. S. was getting into the second stage: tooling up. The OPM itself was a four-man board on which two were advisory dummies-War Secretary Henry Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Boss was a two-headed man named Knudsenhillman, whose like had never been seen on land or sea, but who looked exactly like a Roosevelt compromise. The struggle raged about a job that will one day perhaps be all-important: executive secretary of the OPM. The $1-a-yearlings wanted the job for Fredrick...
...order, tagged "request," was issued by OPM's Priority Director Ed Stettinius. Effective March 2, he told machine-tool men, deliveries of machine tools may be made only to customers who have 0PM priority ratings, i.e., to manufacturers who will use them in defense work...