Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Basis of SPAB's action was a report by OPM's white-haired steel expert, William A. Hauck. At his instigation, 30 steel companies had submitted specific plans for expanding their plants in 15 States. Their plans kept the regional distribution of the U.S. steel plant about where it was before. One noteworthy change: the Pacific Coast, with 1,865,300 tons of new pig iron and steel ingot capacity projected, was to be made virtually self-sufficient...
...Jesse Jones, who must sign the contracts and advance the money. If it takes his Defense Plant Corp. as long to sign up for new steel as it has for new aluminum, the new tonnage may remain on paper indefinitely. In the two and a half months since OPM approved a 6,500,000-ton pig-iron expansion, Businessman Jesse Jones, tortured by post-war overcapacity nightmares, has signed up for barely half of that tonnage. With the scrap-iron shortage worse than ever,† he will have to finance a lot more pig iron, too, to support...
This nine-way confusion was worse confounded when all nine agencies turned up in OPM's priorities division, each demanding copper, zinc, iron and steel. Certifier Palmer and Allocator Carmody also yelled contradictory advice in OPM's ear. Month ago, Palmer once more got the Presidential nod, was given certifying power over all defense housing priorities. Carmody, who sees no need for Palmer's job, would gladly take it over. Last July he told a House committee that the Coordinator's title was spelled "d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r." Last week he said...
Meanwhile another housing mess appeared last week, involving OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman. P. J. Currier, president of Detroit's Currier Lumber Co., month ago underbid competitors by $431,000 for an FWA contract to build 300 defense homes at Wayne, Mich. But he has not got the contract, he charges, because Hillman has virtually granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor...
...have nearly doubled their output since March, can go no further because of the shortages in copper and machine tools needed for new stills. Yet reserve stocks are only 5,000,000 gallons (three or four days' supply) v. 32,919,000 gallons at war's beginning. OPM expressed the shortage thus: 1941 output 200,000,000 gallons; demand 213,000,000 gallons...