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...order is no Harold Ickes false alarm. The oil companies demanded it, out of necessity, and they asked not a 20% but a 25% reduction. Filling stations may remain open not more than twelve hours a day, six days a week. This temporary restriction may soon become formal: every motorist in those States will then have to have a ration card...
Tire restrictions were being felt all over the nation last week. Milk companies abandoned daily deliveries, began to send their trucks out every other day. Department and grocery stores encouraged patrons to tote their purchases themselves. Black bourses for tires sprang up everywhere, and many an unwary motorist found himself missing a spare. "Do we have to go bankrupt?" wailed tire dealers...
...calendar 1940, the 15,000,000 in 1941 will be some 22,100,000 in 1942 and still more if personal exemptions are again lowered. By Feb. 1 every one of the 36,000,000 motor vehicles in the U.S. must bear a windshield sticker signifying that the motorist has paid a $2.09 tax for the privilege of using a car. Then after five months the motorist must buy a $5 sticker, good for the 1942-43 fiscal year...
...tire boards will not deal with the average man, for no private motorist can buy a tire until the Far Eastern supply lines are opened. But the average man will be increasingly aware of the boards, as they take over rationing yet to come. They, or boards like them, will handle the rationing of new automobiles announced last week (see p. 61), the expected rationing of refrigerators, radios, metal furniture, many another item...
...Motorists. In Philadelphia, police caught up with a speeding car that looked empty. Slumped down behind the wheel was the driver, who said he was keeping his bearings by watching the trolley wires. In San Francisco a judge fined a motorist $5 for straddling a white traffic line. The motorist was the painter who had put the line there...