Word: gasless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only businessmen, hunters, prospectors and settlers could use it. But now it had gasoline stations (the longest gasless gap: 200 miles). Everyone hoped it would be open for tourist travel next year...
...farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over gas rationing almost left the East gasless...
Died. Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, 79, son of the 20th President, longtime (1908-34) president of Williams College; in Williamstown, Mass. He was U.S. Fuel Administrator in World War I, and responsible for the various heatless days, lightless nights, gasless Sundays of that...
...Governor Leverett Saltonstall, after a day spent conferring with Petroleum Czar Ickes in Washington, where offices are comfortably warm (see p. 22), returned to icy Boston determined to invoke his emergency war powers, if necessary, to force conversion. His first action last week was to proclaim a voluntary "gasless Sunday...
...science of remaining in business in the swift-changing war economy has produced many a weird result: gasless gasoline stations selling hardware, hammerless and nailless hardware merchants vending dry goods, autoless automobile dealers distributing food products. Latest business gallimaufry is a combination of steamship operations and egg dehydration...