Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Having admitted aluminum's poverty, OPM proceeded to pass the hat for it. In interventionist Richmond, Va. and in isolationist Madison, Wis. (and their counties), it put school children. Boy Scouts, American Legionnaires to work collecting aluminum scrap. This week the experiment ended and OPM waited for the returns to come...
Before its test collection, OPM put on a surcharged publicity campaign, announcing that both cities were going to be asked to make a "sample sacrifice'' for national defense. To a citizenry worked up to the point of donating its blood or staying up all night, the sacrifice of a few pots & pans was easy. In both cities, old aluminum poured...
...This week OPM Statistician Stacy...
Many a delegate wanted to know: how far would the Government's buying program, interfere with his own? OPM's speakers left them no doubt that business-as-usual was dead for the duration. Director of Purchases Donald M. Nelson set the U.S. goal at $35,000,000,000* of defense production a year, which meant a corresponding decrease in civilian production. The purchasing agents were urged to adapt their buying policies to a long defense pull, to seek substitutes for strategic materials, not to hog inventories, so that no manufacturer should be short of materials while another...
From able Economist A. W. Zelomek of Fairchild Publications, now dollar-a-year man with OPM, the delegates got a good idea of how potentially explosive the price situation was. On a chart he showed that total U.S. production had risen sharply last year until about October. Then, as the U.S. neared the limit of present productive capacity, it reached a plateau which can slope upward only slowly in the future. But the amount of production going into armament had increased sharply since October, would increase even more in the future. Henceforth production heretofore taken by civilians would have...