Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...circus had a clinical air. Aboard were parts and samples of defense equipment; the little men could see and feel the guns, gears and gas masks their Government needs. Blueprints, specifications and experts littered every car-from OPM, Army Air Corps, Engineers, Ordnance, Chemical Warfare, Medical Corps, Signal and Quartermaster Corps, Navy, and Maritime Commission. By tour's end, Odium hopes 30,000 small manufacturers will have flocked around the samples and said, "I can make that...
Thus did the new head of OPM's Contract Distribution Division, after nine weeks in his job, set out to lick the most serious economic problem now facing the U.S.: the democratization of defense. His attack had characteristic energy and bravura. He worked from 9 a.m. to midnight, ate 20-minute lunches, burned out three assistants.* From the Budget Bureau he asked a whopping appropriation: $23,470,725 for the next twelve months. Of this, $5,000,000 was for his gigantic promotion plans, including the traveling circus, $1,000,000 worth of permanent exhibits and $422,500 worth...
Last month OPM decided that was not enough. To Phelps Dodge it proposed an 80% expansion to bring Morenci's production to 10,000 tons monthly, some 13% of total current U.S. production. Defense Plant Corp. would finance the new ore-handling and refining equipment ($28,000,000). Phelps Dodge had figured Morenci's vast reserves would take 28-30 years to extract. Now it may have to figure on a briefer future...
...biggest electric steel plant ever to be built in the U.S. was last week proposed by OPM. With an annual capacity of 504,000 tons, the plant (to cost about $8,000,000) will be built with Government money in South Chicago, operated by Republic Steel Corp. It will be ready for part-time operations in eight months...
...creeping disease of the U.S. economy, priorities unemployment, infected the booming West Coast lumber industry last week. Because of OPM's priority order against non-defense housing (TIME, Oct. 6) millmen have had a flood of cancellations on "side-cut" lumber (for home construction). Last week Portland's West Oregon Lumber Co. cut operations from five to two days a week. Another concern did likewise. Said the West Coast Lumbermen's Association: "Others might follow...