Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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This week Engineer Jollie said he had indeed looked at the Kalunite site with Engineer Chadwick. Reason: OPM had asked Alcoa to build the plant for Olin. Mr. Jollie vetoed Mr. Eichelberger's site because it was on tidal land...
...Eichelberger insisted that the site was fine for alunite-aluminum production, was not feasible if bauxite-aluminum production (whose carbon furnaces require deep pits) was planned. The fact that Alcoa was to build his plant was news to him. If OPM was not giving him the runaround, it was certainly giving him the silent treatment...
...working Baruch for the duration was the man chosen to be SPAB's executive director: Donald Marr Nelson, ex-vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and until last week OPM's Purchasing Director...
Besides Chairman Wallace, the SPABoard consists of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson; Navy Secretary Frank Knox; William S. Knudsen, OPM's Director-General; Sidney Hillman, labor's man; Harry L. Hopkins, Lend-Lease Administrator, Defense-Aid director; and Leon Henderson in charge of Civilian Supply...
...make this setup a little blood had to be shed. Two weak spots in OPM were Production, headed by John David Biggers, and Priorities headed by Edward R. Stettinius. Both were given jobs in which they may have more success...