Easterners Find It Takes More Than Ration Cards To Get Gas
By TOM WOLF NEA Service Staff Correspondent New York July 23 reports how eastern motorists cope with wartime gasoline rationing. Stations run dry often, signs read no gas, and dealers use tricks to serve regulars while keeping supplies. Car lines trail trucks, parked cars wait overnight, and some districts see reduced pleasure travel. Stores adapt with train shuttles, share the ride schemes, and home delivery ideas as gas scarcity reshapes daily life and shopping patterns.
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Tom Wolf
NEA
New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Oasis
Hubby
Bear Mountain Park
Union Official Queried By Fly
Washington July 23. The FCC pressed James C. Petrillo president of the American Federation of Musicians and NBC for a full statement of facts about NBCs cancellation of the National High School Orchestra from Interlochen Michigan. FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly sent identical letters to both Petrillo and NBC president Niles Trammell.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
National Broadcasting Company
National High School Orchestra
Interlochen
Mich
NBC
Petrillo
James Lawrence Fly
FCC
Niles Trammel
Wife of Wake Island commander dies in wait for news
Washington July 23 Mrs James P S Devereux 27 wife of Wake Island garrison commander died after long illness last night without word from her husband since the fall of the marine outpost to Japan Dec 23 Major Devereux reported by the Red Cross to be a Japanese prisoner in Shanghai
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Washington
James P. S. Devereux
Wake Island
Devereux
Internatornal Red Cross
Shanghai
Estivation Defined For Mammals In Hot Dry Season
The period of torpor undergone by certain mammals during the hot dry season when food is scarce is estivation, contrasted with winter hibernation.
Republic Raps WLB Order But In Agreement
Cleveland July 23 Republic Steel Corp said it would submit to the War Labor Board order for pay raises and union security but called the decision unsound and a threat to the national economy The letter to the board says normal times would allow an appeal to courts but war production cannot be interrupted Republic is the third largest U S steel producer to announce it would include WLB provisions in contracts with CIO United Steelworkers Bethlehem Steel and Inland Steel plan to test the board’s power in federal court Youngstown Sheet and Tube opposes the measure saying it could spark inflation
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Republic Steel Corp
War Labor Board
WLB
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Republic
Natai
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Bethlehem Steel Co
Inland Steel Co
Chicago
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
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