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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 said at least 320,000 new railroad workers must be found by year's end.

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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

WPB finally answered the pleas for help of the Office of Defense Transportation, jittery over the truck shortage.

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

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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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