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...owner, long forced to hire extra help and stay open at night for competitive reasons, Harold Ickes has been a blessing that upped their profits. To the Senate hearing on gasoline rationing (TIME, Sept. 22), some of them sent a man to plead for keeping Ickes' 7 p.m. curfew. Last week in Utah, far from the Eastern shortage belt, members of the State's Association of Petroleum Retailers adopted the curfew just because they liked...
With the shortage presented in terms of tank-car and tanker capacity, there were bound to be public gripes at the gas curfew, Senate swats at the unpopular man who thought it up. Mr. Ickes had evidently tried to sell his conservation program on the wrong basis...
...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...
Because of the strike Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven decreed a state of emergency and clamped Oslo under martial law. Oslo's German police chief, Wilhelm Rediess, implemented the declaration by authorizing death penalties, confiscation of property. Oslo was placed under a 7 o'clock curfew, transportation was stopped after that hour, public meetings were prohibited, wireless sets seized, dancing forbidden. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Salvation Army organizations dissolved...
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this week so confident of no shortage that he said even the nightly curfew on gasoline stations might soon be withdrawn.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...