Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...OPM approved the release of brass for lamps and lipstick holders, disapproved release of brass for religious medals that the Holy Name Society wanted to give Catholic soldiers. When the news seeped out last week, six tons of "high brass" were released for medals pronto...
...copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...Both OPM and OPA showed their teeth last week, for the first time got noncompliant businessmen up on charges...
...OPM's bad boy was a violator of priorities, a Chicagoan of undisclosed identity. Charge: he had obtained a "considerable quantity" of aluminum for defense use through preference ratings, had instead supplied it to old & good customers for non-defense purposes. After his day in court, behind closed doors, OPMites retired to weigh his degree of willfulness...
...weeks TIME'S Index has held within a 4½-point range. Car-loadings are still about 80,000 cars below the 1,000,000-car peak predicted for October. Auto production, some 30,000 units under 1940, is not even keeping pace with the quotas imposed by OPM. Even in the textile industry, fat with Army orders, output has declined sharply since June...