Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...OPM last week blurted bad news for the press: next year there is not going to be paper enough to go around. Publications will have to get along with less paper...
Announced OPM's Chief of Pulp & Paper Norbert A. McKenna: "Paper is an essential commodity in war as in peace. It packages goods for Britain, it carries Army orders, it wraps our food, it prints our magazines and publishes our newspapers. The needs for defense, directly and indirectly, next year are estimated to consume 30% of the available paper supply. The total available American supply will approximate 21½ million tons. Total demand for defense and civilian needs may total as much as 25½ million tons. . . . We challenge you to form a gigantic paper 'V for victory...
This challenge would have been more appealing had not OPM declared two months ago that there was no newsprint shortage in sight. It would have been more convincing had not Paper Policeman McKenna suddenly boosted OPM's estimate of paper needs by nearly 40%-two months ago OPM set demand at only 18½ million tons. It was evident that OPM's figures on paper supply & demand, production capacities, are contradictory, that the Government is approaching paper rationing with as little savvy as gasoline rationing...
...fact that OPM is floundering in a sea of statistics does not alter the prospect of shortage. Many a publisher, aware of the notorious excess capacity of newsprint mills, has been lulled into a false sense of security. But under defense pressure mills have begun turning pulp into products which they never dreamed of, even laminating newsprint into special paperboard for shell boxes. Before many months it seems certain that the U.S. press will have to take in its belt...
...meeting changed Toledoans' minds. Head of the Washington delegation was Alex Taub, a former Chevrolet and Vauxhall (British G.M.) production engineer who-experting for OPM and SPAB-has been in the front lines of Washington groups fighting for more subcontracting. With Taub was a group of Army men headed by Major J. B. Maderis of the War Department's contracts distribution branch. Both Taub and Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities...