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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...
...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...
...Ramspeck's friends know him as a conscientious worker who shuns social life, stays at home with his pipe and books. Even Georgia Neighbor Gene Cox, with whom Ramspeck has tangled on many a labor bill, praised Neighbor Ramspeck's ability. Pleased, too, was Leader McCormack, of Massachusetts. Said he of Southern Bob Ramspeck: "He has a national mind...
Into U.S.O. fund headquarters in Logansport, Ind., fortnight ago, came two hot, weary young Americans wearing the blue-grey uniform of the R.A.F. One of them, decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, carried a barracks bag; the other, badly in need of a shave, had only his empty pipe for duffle. Could they get a meal...
...forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy?" The crew, he said, grinned, and said, "Sure...