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Ickes' warnings of "gasless Sundays" recalled World War I days, when Sunday driving became treasonous, children stoned cars, and pedestrians yelled "slacker" at any driver who ventured out. Since then the Sunday ride has become a major U.S. recreation. Washington, in 1941, shrank from spoiling it, preferred a straight rationing system which would fix the amount of gasoline a consumer could buy each week, permit him to use it whenever he pleased...
...nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...oilmen were glad at least that they had a boss with authority. Reason: the growing transportation problem. Ickes himself, in a characteristic grab at the headlines, had forecast "Gasless Sundays, Dim 'White Ways' " last week, preventable only "if we had means of transportation, or if facilities were developed...
...cease. Housing had stopped dead. In another year the whole civil population would have been clothed in a cheap but serviceable sort of uniform. Flaps from pockets would have disappeared. At Alice Longworth's recommendation, steel had been taken out of women's corsets. There were gasless, meatless, sugarless, fuelless days. And the nation's cartoonists played day in & out with a colorful character named High Cost of Living...
Died. Mark Lawrence Requa, 70, oil mining tycoon, onetime (1932-36) California Republican National Committeeman, crony and California campaign manager of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932; after a fortnight's illness; in Los Angeles. As an official of the Wartime Fuel Administration he instituted gasless Sundays...