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...lobby of Chicago's Hotel Stevens. The farther he had to push, the madder he got; almost everyone he bumped was wearing some convention badge. Near the crowded elevators, his eye fell on the long list of conventions and meetings on the bulletin board. This was more than ODT's boss could bear. He roared: "There are more damn conventions in Chicago this week than there should be in the entire country...
...shipping the warehouse units to areas where surpluses exist, rather than by shipping the surpluses to central warehouses, ODT will save transportation, and will keep stocks of surplus goods where prospective buyers may examine the merchandise. Last week the Government had experimental prefabricated warehouse units set up. Before it is through, it will need 100,000,000 sq. ft. of storage space, hopes that the cost will not exceed...
...pressing crowds, vacationers carried babies, hatboxes, bundles, dogs, cats, bird cages, tennis rackets, golf bags and box lunches. They squeezed through train gates, scrambled down baggage-laden platforms, crowded their luggage in passageways, pushed their way to seats, often stood up all the way. These were citizens that the ODT had failed to scare with crowded-train talk, or shame with messages about the wounded needing travel space. What they pushed and shoved and sweated for was a vacation, and they didn't care how uncomfortable they were...
Despite crowded trains, the doctor shortage and the scarcity of hotel rooms, doctors flocked last week to big meetings all over the U.S. Said the American Medical Association, which plans a Chicago meeting in June: "We just cannot postpone our scientific sessions any longer. . . . The ODT [told us] to go ahead if we felt it was necessary...
...spite of ODT's pleas to keep travel at a minimum, there were eleven other big meetings last week-a contrast with last year, when flocking doctors were almost as rare as passenger pigeons...