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From a new orange and white steel tower, 410 feet high and clean-cut as a Sheeler painting, Columbia Broadcasting System's WABC, without any increase in power, last week made itself heard with doubled intensity over a large section of the Eastern seaboard...
...staffs in the Army and the Maritime Commission have worked over the past week end rushing supplies to the seaboard, and everything possible is being done to send the material to Russia to help the brave defense which continues to be made...
...dawn one morning last week, from fire towers in Massachusetts, from skyscrapers in Manhattan, on lonely farms in Pennsylvania, on sandy knolls along the Virginia coast, from 1,600 posts along the Atlantic seaboard, 40,000 pairs of civilian eyes peered at the sky. These volunteer watchers were inaugurating the biggest rehearsal for air-raid defense ever undertaken in the U.S. They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were...
...many an Eastern Seaboard filling-station owner, long forced to hire extra help and stay open at night for competitive reasons, Harold Ickes has been a blessing that upped their profits. To the Senate hearing on gasoline rationing (TIME, Sept. 22), some of them sent a man to plead for keeping Ickes' 7 p.m. curfew. Last week in Utah, far from the Eastern shortage belt, members of the State's Association of Petroleum Retailers adopted the curfew just because they liked...
...right after the Office of Production Management had declared them impossible. It created a long crossfire between Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, who thought rail capacity was lovely, and New Deal economists who thought it was lousy. It was still apparent last week in such unintelligible mazes as the Eastern Seaboard oil situation...