Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven days of testimony, it reported flatly that there was no shortage: the railroads could provide 20,000 now idle tank cars to transport 200,000 bbl. a day, more than enough to make up for the diversion of tankers. It recommended that Ickes drop his filling-station curfew, his 10% cut in deliveries to distributors, above all his shrieks and alarms. Said the committee, giving Honest Harold the lumps: "... Had an adequate analysis been made . . . the confusion of the past few months might have been avoided." But Ickes' men, lifting the same shells, found a pea under every...
Civilian Defense Director LaGuardia went home from Washington this week so confident of no shortage that he said even the nightly curfew on gasoline stations might soon be withdrawn. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads told a Senate Committee he could have the 20,000 cars rolling in a week or two, said 200,000 barrels a day was a conservative estimate of what could haul from Texas to the East. Since the highest estimate of the shortage is 174,000 barrels a day, that would mean the oil drought was over...
...Curfew on gas stations in the East last week got startling results. The first was the discovery by the Government that instead of dropping, gasoline consumption rose an estimated 8%. The second was the discovery by the public that Government rationing had already arrived. Without warning, OPACS' Leon Henderson ordered oil companies to cut their deliveries to filling stations 10%. That did give motorists a jolt...
...voluntary filling-station curfew in eastern seaboard States seemed to be at least a moral success last week. Whether it had actually cut down gas consumption, it was still too early to say. Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes indicated that the curtailment had fallen far short of the desired one-third. In any case, rationing of gasoline for motorists was more than a probability. Preparing for a vacation in the West (where he expects a less serious shortage), Coordinator Ickes said: "We want to give this voluntary campaign a fair trial...
...trainees also published a newspaper, Camp-ISS-Bellow, put salt in the sugar bowl, sucked lollipops handed out by Mrs. Roosevelt, satirized their lecturers in songs, played tennis, danced, picnicked. Curfew was at midnight, but when Mrs. Roosevelt was around they stayed up until...