Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...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...
...unraveling. Last week, tired of preachments without results, Eastman's Office of Defense Transportation got tough, slammed the brakes on virtually all the nation's five million trucks, 154,000 busses and 50,000-odd taxis. After Nov. 15 none of these vehicles can operate without an ODT certificate...
...cope with the detail of enforcing this drastic transportation edict ODT will increase its number of regional offices from 50 to 150. With luck, and truck drivers willing, ODT hopes to stretch the tire supply until there is enough synthetic rubber available for civilian needs...
...this is not enough. At last week's A.T.A. conclave ODT official Guy A. Richardson (once Chicago transit boss) flatly accused transit men of "business as usual," too much "conversation" and not enough action. He warned that before the war is over you "will be glad to get any sort of vehicle that will roll on wheels...