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WASHINGTON--Greatly strengthened anti-submarine measures helped bring a sharp drop in U-boat attacks off the eastern seaboard last week, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told a press conference today...
Last week, less than four months after the U.S. entered World War II, the railroads had again to embargo most export freight moving to seaboard. The congestion in the ports had reached a point where in some places it was necessary to unload goods into open fields in order to empty freight cars...
...Atlantic coastal waters to follow fixed north-south sea lanes by day, to douse their lights (or face possible loss of masters' licenses) at night if they could not make harbor. Key coastal towns and resorts were ordered to black out. Frank Knox and a submarine-conscious eastern seaboard waited for results. But it was too early to tell...
...month's supply in normal times. The oil shortage now, as it was last fall, is really a transportation, shortage, but this time it is acute. At the peak of last fall's oil scare, about 20% of the 300-odd tankers that usually ply the Atlantic Seaboard were on loan to Britain. Now tanker service has been chopped 45%, partly because of submarine sinkings, partly because of restrictions on tanker movements to prevent sinkings but mostly because so many ships have been transferred to war routes in the Pacific. Result: tanker deliveries are less than...
This bottleneck would require much more drastic rationing than is yet in prospect, if the railroads had not come to the rescue.* Year ago the rails hauled practically no oil to the Atlantic Seaboard and last October they hauled only 141,000 bbl. a day. Last week they hauled 435,000 bbl. daily-a new all-time record and 40% above the rosiest estimates...