The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-26

workers, and tn Ofice of Defense Transportation didn't have any money, too. Thus things are stymied. And ODT ha not received the directive whici WING hasn't written.
 ODT did a little preliminary sounding out of the railroads, anc found the carriers would be glac to haul workers at the regular coact rates of ,1.65 cents per mile in the south and 2.2 cents per mile in the north. Furthermore, ODT calls at- tention to the fact that it's against the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion regulations and law for em- ployers to haul workers by truck, state lines.
 So everything is in beautiful jam of status quo. 70
 PSB IN PICKE
 If the Plant Site Board had its job to do over again, @ lot of the war production factories probably wouldn't be located where they arc, because no one foreSaw the rubber shortage and the resulting problem of transporting workers from home to job and back again.
 Ford's huge Willow Run bomber assembly plant outside Detroit is the best case in point. All brains agreed the working force would get itself back and forth In private automobiles, using a @ beautiful 4-lane highway to YpSilanti. But along comes-the rubber crisis, and look what happens:
 The Michigan Central railroad, which runs right past the plant, can't worry workers because it's too busy carrying war freight.
 The Federal Public Housing Authority has to rush plans for l7 new projects, near the plant, to shelter some. 10000 families who will have to move closer to the job because by next year there simply won't be any way to get them to work except on foot or by short-haul busline.
 One emergency bus system be- tween Willow Run and Detroit has been running its busses half empty because workmen doesn't want to ride Q bus to work as long as there is an ounce of gas in the tank, an ounce of rubber on the rims.
 What this indicates, if anything, is that the only way to solve the rubber problem Is to take the tires away from everyone and make people find other transpor- tation.
 GLAD TO GET ALONG
 Transportation of business men and government men into Wash ington, in the meantime, moves at terrific rate for the paying cus- toners. The railroads say nearly 50 more Pullmans are moving into Washington every night than were coming in 8 year ago. Twenty of them originate in New York. ano another 20 come from Chicago.
 Moving out. on the New York run, peak trafflc comes in the late afternoon. On many of these trains not only is every seat sold. but someone is sitting on the arm of every chair and seat, and some passengers are actually forced to stand up all the way to New York, a three-and-a-half to four- hour run.
 REvYSEn HIST
 War agencies now number more than 30, and since there have been a lot of recent changes, here's a revised list of the most important two dozen:
 OEM-ofice for Emergency Man.
 agement.
 WPB-War Production Board. WMC-War Manpower Commis-
 sion.
 BEW-Board of Economic War
 fare.
 WDC-War Damage Corporation. OWI-Office of War Information. WLB-War Labor Board. OC-Oflce of Censorship. OLLA-Offlce of Lease-Lend Ad-
 miniStration.
 DCB = Defense Communications
 Board.
 APC-Alien Property Custodian. PCW-Petroleum Co-ord!nator for
 War.
 SFC-Solid Fuels Co-ordinator. FRC-Food Requirements Com-
 mittee.
 ODT-ofice of Defense Transpor-
 tation.
 ODHWS- Ofiice of Defense Health
 and Welfare Services. OSRD-Ofiice of Scientific Re-
 search and Development. wsA-War Shipping Administra-
 ton.
 OCTAA-Onlce of the Co-ordina-
 tor of Inter- American Affairs. OCD- -Ofilce of Civilian Defense. OPA-Offlce of Price Adfninistra-
 ton.
 pcs Division of Civilian Supply. OAWR -Ofice of Agricultural War
 Relations.
 On top of this are all the loan and housing agencies and ail the departments of WIPE, which would raYsa k9aa Sas1ls1f,Ar af 0Uay1afnr afaaA