Word: odt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Made known his "deep regret" at the death of ODT Director Joseph B. Eastman...
...months, as ODT boss, genial, drawling Joe Eastman had worked a killing 15 hours a day to keep U.S. transportation fluid. As ICC commissioner for 25 years he had labored to master transportation economics. No other man knew the subject so thoroughly. And in politics-ridden Washington he was outstanding as a man who kept his mind...
...Eastman was appointed ODT head over the opposition of critics who held that the depression-blighted railroads were unprepared for war.* They wanted Government control backed with a big stick, and Eastman, they protested, was no big-stick man. But Eastman dumbfounded his critics. He successfully carried an ever-increasing burden without faltering-and so did the railroads...
...ODT and ICC have been unable to halt this drain on the railroad manpower pool. Traffic jams on most of the U.S. railroads are nearing the critical point...
...coaches last week-the first "relief train" hauling stranded escapists home. Its faded red & green cars got to Manhattan five hours late, released some 500 battered passengers, and went back empty to haul another load away. Next day the second of the two extra coach trains allowed by ODT for the Great Evacuation arrived three hours late. The sordid shuttling will go on; by midsummer, said ODT, all the suntanned refugees may get home...