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...Federal view of vacations: ODT approves a one-trip vacation (if not too far away) as "necessary travel." Casual trekking-off over weekends is frowned on. Trains (preferably coaches), busses and common carriers are all right for holidaying-if space can be found. The use of private automobiles in the East is strictly illegal-even to visit an Army camp. But Washington said that travel would not be rationed this year...
...Sixty carloads of potatoes shipped to Manhattan from the south to ease the shortage rotted on the way because the Interstate Commerce Commission, backed by ODT, banned the use of refrigerating ice. All the ice, said ICC, was needed to ship food to southern Army camps. After the damage was done, ice was found for future shipments...
Many thousands had enormous difficulty in getting to work. Bus schedules had been slashed way down. Retail deliveries were cut, from 10 to 100%; laundries, milk and other services were cut to a minimum. The people were ruled by ODT, checked up on by OPA and explained to by OWI. But the main thing...
...predicted ODT: things will get worse in the next 60 days...
Like other U.S. cities, San Francisco has had its share of war headaches and bellyaches. The town is overcrowded, hotel rooms are hard to get, restaurants jammed to suffocation, liquor running short, public transportation so fouled up that ODT is stepping in to unify and perhaps operate the street railways...