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...Warren Wright, who won the Kentucky Derby with Whirlaway in 1941, finally decided to race their chestnut colt. The decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager $655,372-the heaviest Derby betting since...
...even his best friends would argue that this background makes Johnson a qualified transportation expert. But he does inherit from the late Joseph B. Eastman a smoothly functioning ODT, and from his ICC experience a practical knowledge of the problems of wartime transportation...
...male aged 18-26, Washington has been more topsy-turvy than ever. Representatives of industry after industry have streamed into town to wail that they could not possibly fulfill their war contracts if their young key workers were drafted. Officials of Army, Navy, War Manpower Commission, Selective Service, WPB, ODT, Petroleum Administration for War, et al, have been scrambling away at cross-purposes or behind each other's backs, trying to get favored treatment for their industrial wards...
...Agencies Appropriations Bill, the OSRD got 12 million dollars more than the combined totals granted to the WPB, the ODT, the Petroleum Administrator for War, the WLB, the Office of Economic Stabilization, and the Office of War Mobilization. Congress didn't cut a penny of OSRD Director Vannevar Bush's $135,982,500 budget. (Bush is also president of Carnegie Institution in Washington...
This was the grave problem that troubled tall, erect Brigadier General Charles Duncanson Young, 65, who last week took over Joe Eastman's job. Railroad-trained (42 years with the Pennsy) Young helped Eastman set up ODT in 1942, was in the Army Supply Division for six months as Director of Procurement and Distribution. He returned to ODT in July 1942, was Deputy Director when Eastman died...