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Since the football, schedule had already been made up when the ODT order requesting that all important athletic contests be held near large centers of population, so that a greater number of people could reach them, no change is expected...
...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...
...ODT got excited because the "frustrated freight" first clogged ports and sidings; the State Department and Bureau of Economic Warfare because at least some of the nations were still "friendly" and angry about nondelivery; the Alien Property Custodian because "friendly" consignees had become enemies; Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, etc. because lots of the freight consisted of needed materials...
...ODT has banned football special excursions...
...dehydration plants. Largest operators of Great Lakes package freighters, G.L.T.C. normally operated 14 hustling steamers. Before the war it was well content with its average 1,000,000 tons of package cargoes annually. But this year the Government requisitioned ten of G.L.T.C.'s ships for war service, and ODT ruled that the remaining four must carry grain. The package business is no more; profits have gone aglimmering...