Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...Senate investigation of the Eastern Seaboard oil shortage (TIME, Sept. 15) ended last week. Instead of proving once & for all whether there really was a shortage or whether Harold Ickes was just seeing ghosts, it left Washington as dazed as a bumpkin watching three walnut shells...
...many more tankers will the U.S. have to give Britain (in addition to the 80 already transferred)? 2) Will Navy activity in the Atlantic increase to the point where huge new supplies of oil- will be required? It does not really matter whether there is an Eastern Seaboard shortage-as of today-or not. There may very well be one (or a worse one) tomorrow...
...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...