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...ODT crumpled, said the Big Top could use the railroads if there were any locomotives left after all other train movements, freight, passengers or mixed. The next problem was how to break just about every wartime bottleneck in the book...
...Norwich, Conn., Undertaker C. A. Gager abandoned a longdistance trip because ODT refused him a supplemental gas ration unless he could be sure of a return load...
Sometimes Lewis has got things done. On a recent western lecture tour, he hollered that ODT was making it difficult for farmers and truckers to get enough gasoline to do business on. He aired their grievances and ODT took corrective steps. His broadcasts last summer on synthetic rubber stirred Congress and were put into the Congressional Record. Lewis thereafter claimed virtually all the credit for straightening out the controversy. (He has a propensity for looking back on situations and observing: "I soon cleared that...
...administrative errors turned last week's drought into a national scandal, for the Government was caught as flat-footed as the people. Out of the hasty conferences between OPA and the ODT. between Petroleum Administrator Ickes and New York City's angry Mayor LaGuardia, emerged no solution, but some shocking facts about divided authority. Local rationing boards had been too liberal, had handed out more B and C cards than could be honored. Black markets in gasoline had drained away some of the supply (estimated up to 150,000 gallons...
...source for bootleggers, OPA has just about dried up the stolen-coupon pool. OPA hopes that the new requirements for ODT approval of truck and taxi mileage will undercut the other big source - commercial operators who get more than they really need, "lose" ration books etc. Boot leg coupons are usually sold (for 3-5? a gallon) to gas stations which pass the gas on to unwitting joyriders as a "favor" (at a 100-200% markup over cost...