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...Mines last week, look at synthetic rubber: we all wish serious work on that had begun before last Dec 7. Look also at Alaska: it has lots of coal and no oil,* and perhaps gasoline can be made on the spot cheaper than it can be hauled in by tanker (though Alaska's chief ports are no farther from the California oil fields than New England ports are from the Gulf fields). Anyhow, when the ultimate gasoline shortage appears in 1957, 1970 or 1982, the Bureau of Mines plans to be ready...
Mexico verged on war, and the Axis had only itself to blame. Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla had already sent the Axis a violent ultimatum on the torpedoing of the Potrero del Llano (TIME, May 25). Then last week off Cuba the Axis bungled into torpedoing the 6,607-ton tanker Faja de Oro, which Mexico had grabbed from Italy last year, and whose commander openly boasted last month that he had rammed and sunk an Axis...
MEXICO CITY--Three explosions, possibly set by saboteurs, sent flames racing through a Mexican tanker loading oil at Tampico today, killing at least four men and injuring 20, as this country awaited only a proclamation by President Avila Camacho to put it formally at war with the Axis...
Mexico last week had its first lesson in the cost of abandoning neutrality. The 4,000-ton tanker Potrero del Llano, the former Italian Lucifero, which Mexico had grabbed a year ago, was nosing along off the Florida coast, her colors illuminated, when she was torpedoed with a loss of 14 of her 35-man crew. The very next day Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla sent a note, demanding "complete satisfaction, and a guarantee of damage reparations," not only to Germany and Italy, but even to Japan...
...estimates were knocked out by U-boats prowling the East Coast. The East normally uses 1,600,000 bbl. a day, 90% shipped by tanker; now tankers would carry only a fraction of the load, and there was no way to fill the gap. The railroads, working valiantly, got last week's shipments up to 640,000 bbl. a day (see p. 73). Pipelines and inland waterways added only 175,000 bbl. a day. Until new transportation miracles could be performed, the East was out of luck. Even under this week's rationing system, the East will still...