Word: odt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...F.O.B. ODT ruled that taxis may not be used to deliver telegrams or to carry mail from a business house to a post office...
Brotherhood president, tough, New Dealish Alexander Fell Whitney, first worked out this plan in Chicago where he put several thousand laid-off yardmen to work on railroads desperately short of switchmen. ODT figures that next year the railroads will need 450,000 new employes to handle increased traffic, replace those gone to war. Whitney's plan would help cut this number...
...last week the plan had attracted so much attention that Whitney hurried to Washington to discuss its details with ODT and railroad officials. Whitney thinks the plan might be made nationwide, extended to include all other railway labor, and would be workable within other industries...
First suggested by the Boston University "News," the league was to include Harvard, B.U., Boston College, Tufts, Northeastern, and the armed services. It was proposed as a means of perpetuating collegiate sports contests for the duration, by circumventing the expected ODT ban on unnecessary travel, which would prevent squads from participating in out of town games...
...this first wartime meeting between Harvard and West Point--and, possibly, the last for the duration--much of the color present in recent contests will be lacking. Because of transportation regulations laid down by the ODT, the Cadets are not accompanying their team, and, even though most of the officers and men connected with the University will march instead, much of the pomp and circumstance characteristic of Harvard-Army games in the halcyon past will not be present this afternoon...