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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this week so confident of no shortage that he said even the nightly curfew on gasoline stations might soon be withdrawn.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...
...LaGuardia proposed that the local committees sell direct to the smelters. The Mayor also wanted the smelters to pay a fixed price for the scrap, plus freight charges. All the money was to go unmarked to the U.S. Treasury's General Fund...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...
...couple go to Canada. The U.S. State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged off. ∙ ∙ In Portland, Ore., an empty car rolled away from the curb, rammed...
...Tammany Democrats voting against the Administration because the New Deal is tacitly backing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia for reelection...