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...bitter criticism of Canada's Prime Minister, shrewd, stuffy W. L. Mackenzie King, has been that he seldom does anything as much as half way. A classic example was given last week when the King Government's barrel-waisted Oil Controller George Cottrelle announced hopefully his plan to cut Canada's nonessential consumption of gasoline...
Sputtering, barrel-bellied Joe Weber and sputtering, gangling Lew Fields got each other and the English language in Dutch on and off for over half a century. Born the same year on Manhattan's lower East Side, they threw an act together when they were ten years old and stormed the beer gardens of the Bowery. They were out on the road touring with their own company at the age of 18. Eleven years later they opened their own theater in Manhattan and in a short time it was the best-known music hall...
...East Coast demand. The shortage for the winter quarter will be 23,300,000 bbl. (15%), for the first quarter of next year, 19,400,000 bbl. Assuming that 10,000 deadweight tons of tanker can haul 375,000 bbl. of oil a quarter, the committee translated these barrel shortages into tanker shortages: 300,000 tons this summer, 636,000 tons this winter. It figured that 264,000 of these tons per quarter could be saved, in theory at least, thus...
...apparently unaware of the Azuma Maru until that very moment, promptly responded. With no law at all on his side but with the might of the Treasury Department and the Coast Guard and the cooperation of the oil companies, he stopped the Azuma Maru from taking on a single barrel of oil. A few days later, so that next time there would be a law, President Roosevelt put all U.S. petroleum products under export control, forbade shipments from Atlantic ports to any place except the Western Hemisphere, the British Empire and Egypt...
Other proposed features: 1) an auditorium and studio building to house Manhattan's musicians, 2) an art center to take the place of the scores of art dealers' galleries now scattered along Manhattan's 57th Street and elsewhere, 3) a barrel-topped terminal for Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, 4) a health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants...