Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank-car trips to the East, the line would have enabled the railroads to keep New England supplied. But the pipeline will not be ready until February and Ickes already has taken three steps aimed at upping rail deliveries to New England at least 30% to 300,000 bbl. daily. The steps: 1) No rail tank-car deliveries to five 'Southern states, western New York and Pennsylvania (the cars will rush oil to New England); 2) WPB permission to build 300 tank trailer trucks, each of 4,000-gallon capacity; 3) Early assignment to oil service of some...
...these moves are only pinch-hitting measures. They can be knocked into a cocked hat by the first New England blizzard that slows rail traffic. The nub of the trouble is that New England is still using daily 100,000 bbl. of oil more than it is receiving. Because it thought it would get more oil, only 20% of New England industry has converted to coal and still less conversion has been done by home owners. Two buildings that could have been converted are the State House and City Hall in Boston. Annual savings: 1.5 million gal. of fuel...
...gasoline the pressure tightened. In 16 Eastern States OPA cut the value of A cards 25% to save 20,000 bbl. of gas a day, in the rest of the U.S. ordered rationing to save rubber, beginning Dec. 1. And in many places the people fumed in rebellion...
...inch, $60,000,000 tube will connect with an almost-finished pipeline from Longview, Tex. to Norris City. By next June it will carry 300,000 bbl. of crude oil a day, do the work of 8,000 tank cars. The oil, said Harold Ickes, will go to: 1) the armed forces and "undoubtedly will hasten a second front"; 2) war production; 3) "basic" (not general) civilian transportation and health needs. Steel for the new line will be taken away from some other war projects, as recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Last week Nelson signed an order allocating a trifling 125.000 tons of steel tubing for a 24-in. pipeline from Longview, Tex. to Salem, Ill. The cost: $35,000,000. Capacity: 250,000 bbl...