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Background for Drought. The Government announced that the immediate cause of last week's panic was the North African campaign. Ever since the war began, East Coast gasoline stocks have been low for lack of transportation from oil fields. (The pipeline was not yet finished.) Moreover last week was a week of 1) Christmas shopping; 2) great cold over the U.S., when it was even more important to ship fuel oil than gasoline in what transportation was at hand...
...administrative errors turned last week's drought into a national scandal, for the Government was caught as flat-footed as the people. Out of the hasty conferences between OPA and the ODT. between Petroleum Administrator Ickes and New York City's angry Mayor LaGuardia, emerged no solution, but some shocking facts about divided authority. Local rationing boards had been too liberal, had handed out more B and C cards than could be honored. Black markets in gasoline had drained away some of the supply (estimated up to 150,000 gallons...
Along the streams of the Amazon system that cut through the green, matted jungle, more than 14,000 Brazilians from drought-stricken areas were seeking a new world last week. Like the old pioneers of North America, they were the first of a great army marching westward to open an untouched land. The treasure they were seeking was one of World War II's most precious-rubber...
...they did last year when Holyoke was blighted with drought, Harvard undergraduates have again offered to help the girls satiate their hunger. A new organization known as the "We share the Vittles Club" has offered to split the last 36 barrels of chicken pie family style with the Holyokites...
...establishment of a permanent Repertory Company in every sizable city throughout the nation. At one time, before the advent of the movie, each city has its own stock company; now there are many of them returning to their old haunts, especially in the Middle West where the theatre drought was felt most heavily. These Repertory Companies, staffed by experienced professional actors, of whom there are many ready to give their eye teeth to get into such a venture, would operate very much like the Summer Theatres. Though, instead of presenting a new play each week and discarding...