Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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William Knudsen, half of OPM's two-headed boss, was nevertheless undisturbed. Appearing as a witness before the Judiciary Committee, he said: "We thought that we had that one settled . . . but they thought up another one on the way home. . . . If we could get across to labor and industry how vital this program is to our future . . . then I don't think petty disputes would stop this program." Day later his fellow director of OPM, Sidney Hillman, echoed him: "Cooperation is the answer to labor troubles...
...House Judiciary Committee was concerned, OPM's answer was not the right answer. Said Chairman Hatton Sumners, Nestor of the House: "We here in Congress are under pressure from many sources to act in this situation, because we represent the whole people. If we don't act we may not come back here...
Hacking through the tangled jungle of purchasing, priorities and production, U. S. defense workers, from OPM down to field buyers, see plenty of trees, fallen trunks, clogged footpaths. Great danger to defense and to the future economy of the U. S. is that they are too busy with the trees to see the forest. And inevitably they cannot see beyond into the economic swamps and highlands that lie ahead, after the U. S. has passed through World War II's overshadowing emergency...
Last week OPM acquired a new agency with one job: to get a hilltop perspective of the present and future, advise the U. S. how to avoid crooked paths and hopelessly blocked roads. Announced by OPM's production director, John David Biggers, was a nine-man agency to be called the Production Planning Board. Its function: centralized planning of the defense program, long-range planning for the sag that must inevitably come when the U. S. has more swords than plowshares...
Head of the new agency was a newcomer to OPM's staff of $1-a-yearlings who have patriotically left big jobs to help with the bigger job of U. S. defense. Yet no novice to wartime hurlyburly is PPB's chubby, good-natured Samuel Richard Fuller. Mr. Fuller, who looks like Cinemactor Eugene Pallette with spectacles, joined the Navy (at 37) in World War I, was soon working under Assistant Secretary Franklin Delano Roosevelt as boss of steel-buying for the Navy. After the war Commander Fuller went from steel to cotton, silk substitutes, today is president...