The Press: No Political Gas

Political candidates will get extra gasoline for campaign trips this year, but political reporters assigned to cover them will have to hitchhike. Ruled national OPA headquarters last week, in icy response to a request from Ohio: "This office is at a loss to know how any local War Price and Ration Board could consider it possible to issue extra rations to newspaper men for covering the primary elections."

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