Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them and get them intact, he would still have the problem of organizing a 2,500-mile transportation line before he could use the oil against Britain, a problem more difficult than that of the U.S. in getting oil from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic seaboard...
Even where Henderson had imposed ceilings, there was no stopping the upward trend. When he "suggested" fair prices for gasoline at Northeastern Seaboard filling stations last week, most dealers kept selling for at least ½? higher. Henderson himself admitted that the six-month-old steel scrap ceiling was generally ignored and threatened to "crack down" (but he did not say with what...
Seeking the facts about the Atlantic Seaboard gasoline shortage caused by the transfer of 50 U.S. tankers to Britain, a Senate subcommittee last week heard that 1) there is no shortage yet, 2) any possible shortage will diminish after Christmas, 3) by next April the U.S. may have a tanker surplus...
Some of the Senators suspected Ickes of ballyhooing the shortage "to foster a war psychology." Serious, dark-haired Ralph K. Davies, Ickes' oil deputy, did his best to make the shortage seem real. His figures: the Atlantic Seaboard will burn 199,900,000 barrels of petroleum products in the next four months, will get only 172,100,000. Deficit: 27,800,000. Stocks now in the East are 72,600,000 barrels-just enough to cover the deficit and leave an irreducible working reserve...
...would take some 300 long-range antiaircraft guns to protect New York City alone. Sixty-one big anti-aircraft guns might be enough to put up a spotty defense of a city the size of Buffalo, N.Y. To defend Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, the rest of the crowded industrial Atlantic seaboard, would take thousands and thousands of these guns...