Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...OPM has not encouraged research and experiment in the use of alternative processes for the production of aluminum from low-grade bauxite, or other sources such as alunite. In fact, it discouraged them. A report recommending alunite as an aluminum source was prepared by the Bureau of Mines more than six weeks ago. OPM has not yet acted...
...OPM not only miscalculated needs and sources but refused to aid Reynolds Metals Co. to build capacity for 120,000,000 lb., left that...
...During all this time OPM had relied solely on Alcoa as a source of information, has discouraged others from entering the field. The Senator ticked off some black marks against Alcoa...
...answer came from OPM. Then Knudsenhillman sent to Secretary Stimson a recommendation for eight new plants to lift production 600,000,000 lb. a year. In Arkansas, Washington, New York, Alabama, California, North Carolina RFC will finance them: they are to be privately operated-by what companies, OPM...
With the breath of war blowing hot on the nape of its neck, the Office of Production Management last week revised its organization. It had to. In the six months of its existence, OPM had become hopelessly complicated, endlessly tied up in red tape that grew around its acts like ragweed in a melon patch. Manufacturers seeking to get started on vital contracts had to fight their way through labyrinths of bureaucracy. For any broad-scale ruling they had to go to the purchasing division, then to production, then to priorities. The rulings had to be reconciled. In the process...