Washington. Aug. 16.
The office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply has' proclaimed a rationing system to control petrol consumption on the eastern seaboard by. restricting supplies for' petrol stations:
Bffective immediately, this action, which is unprecedented in-any place in the United States, does not provide for the issue of ration cards to individual car drivers but reduces sup-of] plies delivered to petrol stations By that the committee had agreed to estore $750,000.00 of $1-247,000-000 eliminated by the Senate on Thursday night from a measure allocating $6.883.000.000 for national defence enter,
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