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...Young was rapped himself last week by the Office of Defense Transportation. In nationwide advertising last month, Young had cried that some railroads, particularly those with routes between Chicago and California, deliberately slow down freight trains by mutual agreement to eliminate competition. Replied ODT: in the first half of 1947, all Western roads maintained faster freight-train speeds than Young's C. & O. Countered Young: "Statistical lies," inspired by the prejudiced ICC, of which ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson is a member...
...weeks ago raucous Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, issued an ultimatum: rail shipments of coal would be embargoed unless something was done about the laggard cars within twelve hours. Canadian bigwigs hurried to Washington, agreed to cut the adverse balance to 8,000 cars of all types, even if it meant returning them empty...
...last month, about half of them boxcars. But every month the railroads, run flat-wheeled during the war, have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn-out cars. Production of enough cars to alleviate the shortage-10,000 a month-will probably not be reached until September. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson, who had blamed the carmakers' low production on lack of steel last winter (TIME, Feb. 24) now blames the car-builders. (The car-builders still blame the steel shortage.) All the wheat farmers can do is hope for dry weather. If they are lucky...
Hunt for a Villain. In Washington, a Senate committee was shrilly trying to find out why. ODT's J. Monroe Johnson led off by accusing 1) CPA, for not allocating enough steel for cars and 2) the railroads, for not ordering enough cars. With the U.S. in immediate need of 100,000 freight cars, railroads have so far placed orders for only 78,000. What the railroads should do, said Johnson, was order at least 250,000. That would make it worthwhile for car companies to set up mass production lines...
...ODT's harried director, J. M. Johnson, cried that it was "the greatest transportation crisis in 20 years." No less than eight Government agencies got busy trying to help the overloaded railroads with priorities for materials for new cars, new steps to speed up "turnarounds" of cars, etc. But enough new cars would be long in coming. ODT's Johnson predicted that the pinch would last till spring...