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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 1, published a brief story about a letter from a New Jersey woman to Senator W. Warren Barbour, upbraiding him for obtaining an X card for unlimited gasoline, to which the Senator replied by wire: APPRECIATE THOUGHTS GAS RATIONING. SOLUTION DUE SHORTLY TRANSPORTATION PIPE LINES. The Senator followed up his wire with a letter of explanation . . . part of which follows.—ED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...again, again had his face pushed in. But with the transfer of some 300 tankers to war service, and the East Coast sub sinkings, oil reserves on the Eastern Seaboard dropped 2,000,000 bbl. a week. Mr. Ickes started digging up and relocating old lines, using second-hand pipe to improve a vastly inadequate system. In May he went to WPB with another plea for steel allocations. There were conferences. WPBoss Donald Nelson emerged from lunch at the White House to declare with finality: "The pipeline is out unless you want to give up planes and tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Heat for the East | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...smoke from big black cigars supercharged the sticky heat of the basement cafeteria in Chicago's Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. A well-dressed, pipe-smoking Negro rose to address the third annual conference of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. His 75 listeners, full of fried chicken and Pepsi-Cola, were still wrought up about the issue of their press and their race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Negro Publishers | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Network was born approximately three years ago on an unsuccessful heating-pipe arrangement. Its new electrical bookup has proved feasible, operating for two years from its Shepard Hall studio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR LETS CRIMSON NETWORK REACH '46 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...electrical cable filled with gas is now carrying high-voltage current for seven miles from a Detroit Edison Co. power plant to nearby arms factories. Built by General Cable Corp., it is the longest gas-filled cable in the world: a steel pipe through which run three one-inch copper ropes, separately insulated and packed in nitrogen gas at a pressure of 200 lb. per sq. in. There are a few other such cables, the first of which was installed in the U.S. by General Electric for the Yonkers (N.Y.) Electric Light & Power Co. as a refinement on oil-filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electricity Via Gas | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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