Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...builders and building contractors specializing in home construction, the new priorities system means dislocations aplenty. Tweedy little Sullivan W. Jones, a Manhattan builder who went to Washington last July looking for contracts and wound up as OPM's chief of housing priorities, estimates that 100,000 construction workers will lose their jobs. But, says Jones, without priorities 500,000 would have been thrown out of work...
Priorities, though obsolescent (see p. 79), were the only way OPM had to restore order to the building industry...
Although Robert McConnell, head of OPM's old conservation section, was passed over for the top job, he was by no means purged. He will continue as head of a new Engineers' Defense Board which will advise Rosenwald. Its first job: to knock unnecessary requirements out of U.S. building codes, thus save on materials going into construction...
...OPM's Bill Knudsen knew nothing about the Conservation Bureau until its organization was complete...
Estimates of October freight-car supplies and loadings were a dime a dozen last week. Ralph Budd admitted that there would be 20,000 fewer new cars than the roads had planned for; the National Planning Association predicted a 40,000-50,000 car shortage; the latest OPM report figured there would be a deficit of 80,000 cars. But on one score there was clear agreement: the coal movement might be the backbreaking straw...