Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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These figures (from OPM statisticians) include all U.S. defense payments, including merchant marine and RFC loans. Considering the slow rate of increase in recent months, they are not very encouraging...
Weeks ago, knowing U.S. citizens tumbled to the realization that the job done by OPM in directing the course of national defense was not all it was cracked up to be. Last week OPM admitted the awful fact by announcing its own reorganization. Administration men privately told reporters that even this reorganized OPM was still on trial. If it does not do better with production now scheduled within 60 days, if its residual red tape continues to slow the production of planes, tanks, ships and guns, the whole setup will be scrapped. Something else will be tried, perhaps...
...Plan. To short-cut red tape, let manufacturers settle their problems in one office instead of three, OPM changed itself from a horizontal to a vertical organization. Under the new plan, effective within ten to 14 days, some 30 Commodity Sections will be established. Each will handle the problems of one commodity. Thus a manufacturer, setting out to make uniforms, will go to the clothing section. There he will find (if the plan works) most of the rulings he needs on the three Ps that lie between the drawing board and quantity output: purchasing, priorities and production...
That revision of OPM would speed its processes was at least a hopeful prospect...
...businessmen, a year of rope-learning in the defense business had not proved encouraging either. Each of the two defense agencies with which they chiefly deal signalized the end of the fiscal year with an overdue crisis. OPM reorganized itself (see p. 30). OPACS met the first challenge to its price-fixing powers, prepared to battle for them in Congress...