Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign, but,many a bygone is bygone in Washington's 1941 emergency...
Bill Elliott in OPM...
Also, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, will be here only part time since he will be working in his office as Special Consultant in the Division of Industrial Materials in the OPM...
Argument for Priorities. Last month William C. Arthur, Talon's president since 1939, went to Washington to present the zipper industry's plea for survival to OPM-OPACS. Because slide fasteners have tiny parts with precision fittings, the industry had to use an easily workable copper base. Talon made its fasteners of either nickel silver (65% copper, 18% nickel, 17% zinc) or gilding metal (85% copper, 15% zinc). But to operate at the last twelve months' rate (440,000,000 fasteners), the industry needed just 6,300 tons of copper a year (.6% of U.S. production...
...make it more worth the junkman's while, Block's campaign is also aimed at scrap metal and rags. Last week OPM's Conservation Division called 80 scrap dealers to Washington, told them OPM would soon start a national campaign to increase their collection of all kinds of scrap...