Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Industrial chemists gasped as Edward Ray Weidlein, chemical priorities director for OPM, observed: "The entire military activities of Germany and Italy, plus the industrial and other activities of these countries and of the occupied areas of Western Europe, are being carried on with an amount of petroleum plus synthetic products which is only about 5% of our present domestic production...
Last week, price-conscious Franklin Delano Roosevelt finally got back to his first principles and created a new defense agency to control prices with more potential power than NDAC or OPM had ever held...
...principle to the inner circle of his advisers. Those months have seen the birth and death of the National Defense Advisory Commission, set up in May 1940 with an eye as much to keeping prices down as to getting armament up. They have seen the rise and eclipse of OPM, set up to still public clamor when NDAC did not seem to be delivering fast enough...
...called it the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply: OPACS. He established it parallel to and not under OPM, with its chief equal to Knudsen-hillman...
...Henderson appointment represents a major triumph for Baruch. For months the man who armed America in 1918 has boiled because nobody in OPM bothered to read the record of his War Industries Board. Baruch considers Henderson almost the only competent student of World...