Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Alcoa's new plants will relieve but not end the aluminum shortage. Still uncontracted for is the rest of the expansion program announced by OPM shortly after the Senate investigation: four plants aggregating 260,000,000 lb. capacity to be operated by Reynolds, Bohn Aluminum & Brass, Union Carbide & Carbon, Olin Corp. Present capacity plus the new Alcoa expansions totals 1,200,000,000 lb. a year. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...
Three months after it caught the devil from the Senate Defense Committee on the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM finally had some definite progress to point to last week. Drawn up was a contract under which Aluminum Co. of America will build three Government-owned plants which will produce 340,000,000 lb. of aluminum ingots a year, thus increase present U.S. capacity (built and abuilding...
...With Alcoa's new alumina plant, U.S. capacity will be something over 2,000,000,000 lb. a year. About to be signed with Reynolds is a contract for another alumina plant which will add 200,000,000 lb. To make up part of the remaining alumina deficit, OPM recommended last week that still another 600,000,000 lb. of Government-owned capacity be added to Alcoa's alumina facilities in Arkansas...
...nations, and the soaring rate of consumption in the U.S. (a record 618,592 tons last year, 425,000 tons in the first half of this year). But domestic consumption has been under strict control since June, when Rubber Reserve assumed a monopoly over all U.S. imports. Same month OPM worked out manufacturing quotas. Last week July consumption figures were announced as 68,653 tons-19.1% below June...
...long ago as last April, OPM had told radio manufacturers, with no trimmings, to count on little or no magnesium, aluminum, other scarce materials. Their own leaders said the same, warned them to "get out and dig" for defense business to survive (TIME, June 23). The radiomakers paid good heed. Already they are about 25% engaged in defense work (ammunition and machine-gun parts, wartime radio devices, including the "walky-talky," a two-way battery set for field...