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...Officer Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 23, adventurous nephew of Mrs. Winston Churchill, was listed by the R.C.A.F. as "missing after overseas air operations." Onetime Loyalist fighter in Spain, he eloped with the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, sister of Nazi-phile Unity, romped about the U.S.'s eastern seaboard with her from 1939 till last year when he went to Canada to enter training...
...this week the Maritime Commission was not fretting. The barges are designed mainly to carry Texas oil to the Atlantic Seaboard. If they help prevent an East Coast oil shortage next year they will have done their part...
...filling-station curfew (TIME, Sept. 22, et ante), which had annoyed the Eastern Seaboard and aroused more shouts of outrage than anything Harold Ickes had done since the last time, was called off last week...
...next month) return 40 of the 80 tankers they had got from the U.S. This addition to the U.S. tanker fleet, plus the savings effected by the curfew and a 10% cut in deliveries to dealers, said Mr. Ickes, ended the threat of oil shortage for the Eastern Seaboard...
Would there really have been a shortage? There was no way of telling for sure. But the U.S. may still find out. If the Battle of the Atlantic again reaches last spring's fury, Britain will get the tankers back and the Eastern Seaboard will again get Mr. Ickes...