Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...administrative errors turned last week's drought into a national scandal, for the Government was caught as flat-footed as the people. Out of the hasty conferences between OPA and the ODT. between Petroleum Administrator Ickes and New York City's angry Mayor LaGuardia, emerged no solution, but some shocking facts about divided authority. Local rationing boards had been too liberal, had handed out more B and C cards than could be honored. Black markets in gasoline had drained away some of the supply (estimated up to 150,000 gallons...
...source for bootleggers, OPA has just about dried up the stolen-coupon pool. OPA hopes that the new requirements for ODT approval of truck and taxi mileage will undercut the other big source - commercial operators who get more than they really need, "lose" ration books etc. Boot leg coupons are usually sold (for 3-5? a gallon) to gas stations which pass the gas on to unwitting joyriders as a "favor" (at a 100-200% markup over cost...
...F.O.B. ODT ruled that taxis may not be used to deliver telegrams or to carry mail from a business house to a post office...
Brotherhood president, tough, New Dealish Alexander Fell Whitney, first worked out this plan in Chicago where he put several thousand laid-off yardmen to work on railroads desperately short of switchmen. ODT figures that next year the railroads will need 450,000 new employes to handle increased traffic, replace those gone to war. Whitney's plan would help cut this number...
...last week the plan had attracted so much attention that Whitney hurried to Washington to discuss its details with ODT and railroad officials. Whitney thinks the plan might be made nationwide, extended to include all other railway labor, and would be workable within other industries...