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...Moonlight's biggest sponsors is Furrier I. J. Fox. Survivors from a tanker torpedoed off New Jersey last winter told Lawrence about how they had spent a long, cold night in a small boat hearing him praise the luxury of furs...
...Eastern seaboard gasoline leak up through its price ceiling again last week-up 2? to cover the cost difference between tanker transportation before Pearl Harbor and rail transportation now. It was a real setback for price control, but it was not the kind of setback that people would get excited over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel...
...deal with them. This week, therefore OPA will probably have to puncture its East Coast price ceiling on gasoline for the fourth time, since the oil industry cannot go on forever absorbing the higher cost of bringing oil east by train at 4? a gallon instead of by tanker at ½?. So far a deficit of $39,000,000 is the only thanks the industry has received for its unhesitating efforts to move oil east, without tankers, regardless of cost...
Since then I have served, without complaint, in the Atlantic, Caribbean and the Pacific—wherever they chose to send me. I believe that it is my duty to serve my country in whatever capacity I am best suited and at present that is as second mate aboard this oil tanker. But, if some of these stupid politicians think that it is my duty to risk my life in order to fill the tanks of pleasure cars to the brim, they will have another think coming. I believe that they will soon find out that there are quite a few more...
Such circumstantial evidence finally convinced the cautiously jurisprudential Argentine Foreign Ministry that the two torpedoes which smacked into the plainly marked Argentine tanker Victoria off Hatteras six weeks ago (TIME, May 4) came from an Axis submarine. The Foreign Ministry cabled formal notes of protest to Berlin and Rome, which politely acknowledged receipt and added that they would reply "in due course...