RATIONING OF PETROL PLANNED
MEASURES IN UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. March 14. The War Production Board has ordered a 20 per cent, reduction in gasoline deliveries to filling stations on the eastern seaboard and in Pacific north-west states. Stations have been ordered to confine their operations to 12 hours a day and 72 hours a week. The order is described as intermediate action, designed to hold down gasoline consumption until cards could be printed and issued for a rigid gasoline | rationing programme, which, it is expected. will be initiated in several weeks. ■ Rationing has become necessary not through lack of petroleum, but because of a shortage of transports- 1 lion facilities from the petroleum,' fields. 1
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 6
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