Petrol Blackmarket Greatest Racket Yet
WASHINGTON, March 15.
Thebasiic poaro'i !ra<von has been lowered to two gallons weekly over the entire country to be effective on March 23 because of imminent critical de-r mands and a gigantic blackmarket which is draining 2,500,000 gallons daily fiom restricted civilian supplies. The action entails a one-third reduction everywhere except on the eastern seaboard where the ration already is two gallons.
The Office for Price Administration said that the counterfeiting of ration coupons had become “the biggest criminal racket ever to blanket the country,’ and adcied that in some communities half of all coupons were counterfeit. It warned that petrol blackmarket threatens to wreck America’s wartime economy.
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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1944, Page 6
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