Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...ODT ordered a 25% curtailment of local truck deliveries. The carry-it-home-yourself drive was scarcely begun...
...railroads, according to an ODT survey, are already short of manpower. Seniority lists are "substantially exhausted," particularly of machinists, sheet-metal and electrical workers, telegraphers, towermen, dispatchers. One solution: hiring women...
...Civil Aeronautics Administration), CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) manage air transport; ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) and WSA (War Shipping Administration) work out war transport by rail, truck, bus and ship...
...allow construction of the 975 locomotives they planned for in January. But this is below the 1,200 new and larger locomotives that ODT feels the railroads need this year...
...ODT succeeds, the U.S. can avoid Government operation of the railroads (which cost the taxpayer $1,616,429,000 in the last war). And if ODT succeeds, it may outlive its emergency usefulness, to continue under another name the coordination of domestic transportation...