OIL FROM AMERICA
REQUEST TO FOREIGN BUYERS
REDUCTION IN PURCHASES Rec. 10 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The Commerce Department to-day asked foreign countries to reduce purchases of American oil to relieve the fuel shortage. The United States action came the day after an embargo was imposed on the shipment of all types of petroleum products from American east coast ports. The department urged foreign buyers to cut requirements for the first three months of 1948 for which a reduced export quota of 19,650,000 gallons of petroleum products has been imposed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26693, 12 February 1948, Page 7
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90OIL FROM AMERICA Otago Daily Times, Issue 26693, 12 February 1948, Page 7
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