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...Traffic. This week an observer in heaven would have seen in one spreading glance at the Eastern Seaboard that the greatest of all wartime changes yet had come to the U.S. For the traffic had shrunk to a trickle. All the great, wide, sweetly curved, excellently engineered highways were nigh bare of automobiles. Streets were almost empty. Red lights and green lights blinked mechanically on & off, but nothing stopped or scrambled on. Gas stations stood idle, and many gas tanks were dry. Parking lots stood empty in cities. Traffic cops had little...
...Park lasted five. But Mr. Mori's track will be spared close competition; it is the only race track within 25 miles of Philadelphia. Operating in midsummer, between the closing of Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h...
Some 10,000,000 Eastern Seaboard car owners last week winced at the gasoline rationing (see p. 11), but the heavy losers were the big oil companies. Dopesters put the cost to the industry at about $300,000,000 for the year, about $200,000,000 less than combined profits of the 20 biggest units in 1941. Although predominantly Eastern outfits like Atlantic Refining, Sun Oil and Socony-Vacuum will be hardest hit, the whole oil industry faces its worst economic crisis since the depression...
...latest sporting event which World War II has knocked out is the world's toughest outboard motorboat race: the annual May marathon down the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan (136 miles). Cause: the Eastern Seaboard's new gasoline regulations...
This week 10,000,000 Eastern Seaboard motorists lined up to get gasoline-ration books and the terrible truth. Things were not just as bad as they looked; they were worse. A third of the 10,000,000, who did not need their cars for business or to get to work, got "A" cards: three gallons a week. The rest got a little more. Even these rations were good only until July 1; then the amounts may be revised...