Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Biggest newspaper problem of the moment, however, is ODT's order, effective June 1, that newspapers limit local deliveries to one a day, in order to save rubber and gasoline. In big cities, where newsstands account for a majority of circulation, publishers have complained that one edition a day would ruin them. They suggest pooling trucks, abolishing "returns," printing fewer editions but more than one. They claim their plan would' save more mileage than the Government...
McNear and the Brotherhoods snorted and haggled for a year. Neither budged an inch. Meanwhile McNear scrapped with the National Mediation Board, the U.S. Conciliation Service, the ODT, the National War Labor Board. His battle cry: "It is high time that someone, somewhere made a start. . . . The mere fact that an employe rides around on a train should not give him the right to fleece the railroads and the shipping public...
...waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...
...Restrictions on railroad passenger service for ordinary citizens are imminent, said ODT's Joseph Eastman. U.S. railroads, which last year handled 25,000,000,000 passenger miles, will have to handle more & more of the 15,000,000,000 highway-bus passenger miles, not to mention part of the private automobile load (last year some 250,000,000,000 passenger miles). In Britain, every railroad station now hangs out a sign saying "Is your journey really necessary...
...drive to conserve older cars and tires increased. San Francisco's Yellow Cab Co. ran big ads in the newspapers urging "that you do not use a Yellow cab." ODT warned that taxi cruising must stop. Franklin Roosevelt ordered all U.S. Government departments to reduce their use of automobiles "substantially...