PIPE LINES FOR OIL
CONSTRUCTION IN U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, May 20
President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress urging the rapid enactment of legislation to' facilitate the construction of oil pipe lines for national defence and saying that this was of first-rank importance to the industry, population, and military bases on the Atlantic coast.
To depend entirely on coastal tankers, he said, was a process potentially perilous, making the restriction of oil consumption to essential uses a distinct possibility within a few months.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 10
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83PIPE LINES FOR OIL Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 10
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