Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Local and national A.F. of L. officers deplored and denounced the walkout, C.I.O. officials looked around for a formula to get their men back to work. As depressed as anyone were officials of OPM, who had proudly fathered the shipbuilding pact on the West Coast, considered it ideal, were in the midst of trying to father others like it in the Great Lakes, the Gulf and the East...
...OPM's Sidney Hillman announced last week a plan to end weekend "blackouts" in the defense industry, which President Roosevelt recently deplored. The Hillman plan was to put some industries on a four-shift, 160-hour week, rotating shifts and letting all share Saturday and Sunday overtime pay. The remaining eight hours of the week would be used for overhauling and repairing machines...
...dire, so immediate and so pressing that no effort we could conceivably make would be more than just enough. The very best we can possibly do . . . will be just good enough, with nothing to spare. . . . Such was the judgment passed on the U.S. defense problem last week by OPM's Director Donald M. Nelson...
...light of the emergency with which the world is desperately confronted, we are doing a terribly inadequate job. We should be producing twice the 1,400 airplanes that were produced in April. So said Industrialist William L. Batt, now one of William S. Knudsen's deputies in OPM...
...OPM's aircraft schedule now calls for the production of between 75,000 and 80,000 planes in two and a half years. That is a hope and it may be fulfilled, but OPM officials do not forget that since last fall they have revised the schedules of monthly deliveries three times, and every revision has been downward-from hopes toward realities. Early last October they anticipated an April 1941 production of 2,068 planes (450 combat aircraft and 1,159 noncombat planes for the U.S. Army and Navy; 429 for the British) and June 1941 production...