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...Defense Transportation Boss Joseph Eastman into a Washington hospital last week. His deputy, Brigadier General Charles D. Young, could not have been in much better shape. As the week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...
...civilian experts for the Army & Navy cooled their heels in Miami, the Miami Herald's society columns blossomed with items about debutantes shuttling North for a week at the Waldorf and then South again for such matters of state as "parties preceding the marriage of a college roommate." ODT finally could no longer ignore the mess, ordered two extra trains daily from Florida to New York. They will be ancient, all-coach, no-reservation jobs - and they pot be permitted to take any Southbound business...
...there was still no word of any ODT ban on civilian North-South travel on the regular passenger runs. Said Miami hotelman Andrew G. O'Rourke: "If the Government doesn't want to have the tourists here, why does it let them come South...
...date, no West Coast plants have been shut. And WPB took pains to explain that the ODT survey was only part of a nationwide checkup. But WPB also ominously predicted that, by the end of the year, one-quarter of U.S. aluminum-making facilities will be shut down. Against the possibility that further cutbacks may hit the Coast, Western Congressmen are whittling a political club, aimed at aluminum imports from Canada...
Despite "don't travel" pleas by ODT, despite the hoarding of train reservations by ticket scalpers, Florida was swarming with a full 50% more visitors than a year ago and was having its best season since...