Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Last week ODT and WPB were studying the carriers' carefully pruned minimum new equipment needs for the year commencing in October. If WPB sees fit, the railroads intend to order...
...picked up the paper again, and it was still there in black and white: "ODT Curbs Travel to Big Games." Well, there went his plans for the Yale game, and with it his last hope that possibly he might re-capture, re-create the spirit of a year ago, that perhaps Elizabeth would understand him better. Perhaps it wouldn't all have ended like this, just a letter every now and then. He had planned every minute of it. The trip down to New Haven, the football special, the game and all the crisp excitement then dancing and a whole...
...Midwest stocks, even if made available, are blocked to the East by price hurdles as OPA, ODT, OPC, and WPB play their separate games for political control. It costs at least one cent more per gallon to bring oil east via the Great Lakes than it does to haul it by rail from Texas. Another difficulty is that gasoline still is more profitable to sell than fuel oils. Higher fuel oil profits in the East, smaller gasoline profits in the entire country might perform strange wonders...
...were frightened out of starting the season, two gave up when seacoast dimout regulations prevented night games. Approximately 25% of their players have been lost to the armed forces and higher-paid defense jobs. Another wartime blow to the night-playing, bus-traveling minor league clubs was the recent ODT ban on chartered busses. But as long as they can get around in borrowed station wagons, baseball's bush leaguers have no intention of quitting...
...under McNear's "day's work for a day's pay," T.P. & W.'s wage bill in April was $18,478. The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711. Badly jolted by this noncooperative ODT attitude, the Brotherhoods finally said their wage bill would have been $31,000 (still 70% over McNear's figure). The Government-appointed arbitrator hastily called a two-week recess "so the boys can get their signals straight...