Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Steel Institute estimated that steel production had dropped from 98.3% to 96% last week, as one plant after another banked furnaces because of the shortage of coke. The estimated drop in tonnage: 74,500-enough tons of steel to manufacture some 80 or 90 submarines. If the strike continued, OPM estimated that steel production would drop to 95% of capacity this week, 85% the next, 60% the next...
...first time admitted defeat. It had shattered its shining lance on a pile of coal. For nearly a month, while operators and miners wrangled, virtually no soft coal had been mined. Emergency supplies had dwindled by the hour, while steelmakers, munition makers, shipbuilders cursed. "Criminal" was the word OPM's angry William Knudsen used two weeks ago to describe any stoppage in the defense program. Shocking, at least, were the figures which showed what had happened as the result of the stoppage in coal...
...British, all-out in the manufacture of Typhoons, were also busy with another plane, the Tornado, powered by a 2,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce (the Vulture). Better bet of the two seemed to be the Napier, and last week British representatives in Washington were reputed to be urging OPM to get busy and manufacture Sabres on a big scale. Luckily for the U.S. Army Air Corps, one of its top-flight airmen has seen the Typhoon perform, has had a good look at its engine. British newsmen reported that Major General Henry H. Arnold seemed more impressed by it than...
...member of the Business Advisory Council before the OPM was reformed, Elliott spent much of last summer trying to persuade the Government and business men of the necessity for piling up back-logs of industrial stocks. The original estimates of industrial reserves have since turned out to be as abourdly small as he asserted. At present, only molybdenum of the many scare metals has been piled up in sufficient quantities. Even nickel is restricted...
...OPM official, Professor Elliott often confers with Swope, Stettinious, Kaudsen, and other business barons who are working with the Government, Possibilities for salvage and for substitutes are investigated by the Industrial Materials Branch of the OPM, to which Elliott belongs...