HURRY UP ORDER
PRIVATE CARS IMMOBILISED FOR TWO DAYS. IN EASTERN UNITED STATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 20. All private cars were forced off the roads lor two days in seventeen Eastern states, because of a petrol shortage. About seven million motorists and eighty thousand dealers were affected. ~ ~ President Roosevelt said the crisis was caused by a hurry up order from Africa for gasoline, presumably for the air force and armoured units. The order could be filled faster by shipments from the coast than from The director of the Office of War Administration announced that the ban on the sale of petrol would end tomorrow' but the value of petrol cards would be reduced from four to three gallons. „ , , • , Spokesmen for the dealers claimed that the crisis was the fault of official carelessness. Only the emergency use of vehicles had been allowed yesterday and today. Essential seryices, police, sanitation and food'delivery services were maintained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 3
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161HURRY UP ORDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 3
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