Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Appointed urbane, forthright Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 59, now chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, as director of a new war agency: The Office of Defense Transportation (see p. 60). ODT supplanted the last vestige of the now-extinct NDAC, the first defense organization set up by the President in May 1940. Out of a job (unless he accepts a post under Eastman) was Rail Coordinator Ralph Budd, exponent for 19 months of the theory that the railroads are ready. ODT's Eastman will boss rail, motor, inland waterway, coastal & intercoastal transport, and pipelines...
Other recent additions to the language, from the Washington scene: The "Milk Route" is the daily round of visits a businessman makes trying to get a defense order, to 0PM, SPAB, OPA, ODT, War, Navy, Treasury and Agriculture Departments. A "Torch Bearer" is a sympathetic Government subordinate who actually takes up a case and follows it through...
...week to a job for which he has long been pointed and is ably qualified to handle was expert, hard-working ICC Chairman Joseph B. Eastman. The job: director of newly created Office of Defense Transportation, over all rail, highway, airway, waterway (including coastal and intercoastal) and pipeline services. ODT is the greatest challenge to Eastman in his long career-that of wartime coordinator of all U.S. transportation. His task...