Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Started this week by OPM's labor division was a survey of five cities where the effect of priorities was closest at hand and likely to hurt the most: Meadville, Pa. (zippers); Mansfield, Ohio (refrigerators and electrical appliances) ; Evansville, Ind. (refrigerators and automotive appliances) ; Quincy, Ill. (stove foundries); Newton, Iowa (washing machines). After the survey, OPM hoped to give these areas new defense work*- using the power it obtained last month to write compulsory subcontracting, plus special treatment for blighted communities, into Army & Navy contracts. Question was whether enough could be done, or whether it could be done...
John Biggers, whose handling of political hedgehogs in OPM had caused enmities, became Mr. Stettinius' opposite on the London end of the telephone: Lend-Lease Administrator in England-although W. Averell Harriman and Mr. Hopkins will continue to have the basic responsibility for that...
...replace Nelson as OPM Purchasing Director the President and Sam Rosenman chose Douglas C. MacKeachie, 41, formerly New England manager for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., a scraggly-looking genial man who has already saved the Army millions of dollars while giving the soldiers better food...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...