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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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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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Last week, the Office of Defense Transportation made it plain how much worse they might get.

From Time Magazine Archive

Office of Defense Transportation Director J. Monroe Johnson reported that the steel industry has volunteered to increase supplies to freight-car builders by more than 50%, beginning early next year.

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

The first problem facing the Big Show this year was whether the Office of Defense Transportation would let it go on at all.

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