"Exhaustion" put Office of Defense Transportation Boss Joseph Eastman into a Washington hospital last week. His deputy, Brigadier General Charles D. Young, could not have been in much better shape. As the week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history....
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