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...even his best friends would argue that this background makes Johnson a qualified transportation expert. But he does inherit from the late Joseph B. Eastman a smoothly functioning ODT, and from his ICC experience a practical knowledge of the problems of wartime transportation...
There was a reason. Eastman knew what his opponents had never taken time to learn. The railroads did not break down during World War I because of inability to handle mass transportation. They failed when shippers and Government procurement agencies used railroad cars not as rolling stock but as warehouses. Months elapsed before some cars were unloaded...
This mistake was not repeated. Wise Joe Eastman's orders were: 1) no cars loaded until the consignee's sidings can receive them; 2) load cars heavier. Proof that his ideas were sound came in the 115% increase in freight ton-miles over 1939-still there is no serious car shortage...
Trouble Ahead. But even before Joe Eastman died the railroads feared disaster in 1944. Reason: by January the railroads had lost 270,000 employes to the armed services-over 20% of their prewar employment total. They now have 100,000 jobs open and no takers. Worse, by June the draft will have blown away another...
This was the grave problem that troubled tall, erect Brigadier General Charles Duncanson Young, 65, who last week took over Joe Eastman's job. Railroad-trained (42 years with the Pennsy) Young helped Eastman set up ODT in 1942, was in the Army Supply Division for six months as Director of Procurement and Distribution. He returned to ODT in July 1942, was Deputy Director when Eastman died...