Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Senator Truman: . . . This has all the earmarks of a maneuver by OPM to turn over full control of the aluminum industry to Alcoa...
Frank Eichelberger, chubby-cheeked president of Kalunite, Inc., had got the run-around from OPM for months on his plans to make aluminum from alunite (TIME, June 16). Last week, testifying at a Senate Defense Committee hearing in Seattle, he had a chance to crack back. He snapped at it like an angry smallmouth...
Then Eichelberger told a story that made members of the committee mad too. His alunite process has been approved by the Bureau of Mines and OPM's own technical staff, has been used successfully in Japan. But 0PM, which has persistently favored the process used by Aluminum Co. of America, cold-shouldered Eichelberger from the start...
After the Senate Committee criticised OPM last May for the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM did finally name Kalunite's parent company (Olin Corp.) to operate a Government-owned plant. But OPM did not specify whether alunite ore could be used, hemmed & hawed over location of the plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that...
Senator Mead: You're saying that OPM is trying to force an unfavorable site on you to force you out of the picture...