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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Example Sentences

By year's end, the Office of Defense Transportation predicts, only 23,750,000 privately owned passenger cars will be operating v. 29,507,000 in 1941.

From Time Magazine Archive

Office of Defense Transportation Director J. M. Johnson announced that freight-car production in October reached a postwar peak of 8,394.

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.

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Then the Office of Defense Transportation ordered a 25% reduction in coal-powered passenger service.

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As quietly as he had moved through 28 years of able public service, Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 61, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, died last week in Washington.

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