Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Priorities & Ear Muffs. The worst shortage was in oil. It affected the entire East, and New York City in particular. With thousands of New Yorkers heatless, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered oilmen to put deliveries on a priority basis, giving first call to homes, apartment buildings and hotels. The Navy sent 40 of its tankers into civilian service and even dipped into its own oil reserves to relieve distress in some areas. The Commerce Department cut oil and gasoline exports...
...hard-driving Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker, had been talking up a federation composed of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland (TIME, Jan. 26). Quilted into a single state, it would comprise 447,000 square miles with 81 million people. It had growing armies, resources of coal, oil, and some highly developed industry. In the absence of a strong Germany, it would be Europe's most formidable power outside Russia. And it was perched on Russia's doorstep...
Elsewhere in Latin America last week, oil was also a Page One subject...
...Colombia rushed gasoline up from Peru when 6,000 Tropical (Standard) Oil Co. workers walked out in protest against the firing of exploration crews...
...Argentina cut the monthly gasoline ration to eight gallons when 10,000 oil company employees started a slowdown...