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Office of Defense Transportation

American  

noun

  1. the World War II federal agency (1941–45) that regulated the transport over public routes of goods considered vital to the war effort. ODT


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The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence the Office of Defense Transportation wants all conventions called off except those "closely related to the war effort," wants even those "skeletonized."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not even the railroads could get their barest needs: the Office of Defense Transportation request for 1.5 million tons of steel for badly needed new cars and rail was cut by one-third.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Office of Defense Transportation said at least 320,000 new railroad workers must be found by year's end.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the approval of the Office of Defense Transportation, A.A.R. clamped a tight three-day embargo on all non-Government freight moving east of Lake Michigan and north of the Chesapeake and Ohio lines in Virginia.

From Time Magazine Archive

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